Definizione monolingua

deviate

deviate (third-person singular simple present deviates, present participle deviating, simple past and past participle deviated)

1. (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.

   Hes deviating from the course. Follow him!

2. (intransitive) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

   His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from local censorship norms.

deviate (plural deviates)

1. (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
   • 1915: James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis [1]

     ...Walton has suggested that it is desirable ""to name the phenomena signs of deviation, and call their possessors deviates or a deviate as the case may be...

   • 1959: Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing [2]

     Under these conditions the person who appears as a deviate is a deviate only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court ...

   • 2001: Rupert Brown, Group Processes [3]

     ...The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially...

2. (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
   • 1928: Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education [4]

     It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130...

   • 2001: Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics [5]

     This difference is called a deviate. When a deviate is divided by its SD a, it is called a relative deviate or a standard deviate.

   • 2005: Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R [6]

     This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt. We need to supply it with the probability (in this case p = 0.975) and the degrees of freedom...

Definizione dizionario deviate

	anomalo
	Deviating from the normal or common order, form, or rule.

declinare

deflettere

deviare

svoltare

Altri significati:

(intransitive) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

(intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.

To go off course from; to change course; to change plans

(statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.

(sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.

miss (a chance)

To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray