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What is the noun for deviation?

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deviation
  1. The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.
  2. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
  3. (contract law) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.
  4. (Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
  5. (statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
  6. (metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “A deepened understanding of the situation only reveals the occasional deviation from established norms.”
      “The variation of the acceleration will cause a deviation in the path of the particle.”
      “The connection with the SuIa Sgeir Fan is clearly marked by a re-entrant at the shelf edge, shown by the landward deviation of the 150 m isobath.”
deviate
  1. (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
  2. (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It soon became apparent that our new boss, with his unscrupulous dealings, was somewhat of a deviate.”
deviant
  1. A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
  2. A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Since he was starting something new, breaking the folkway and norms of painting, traditional artists and the art community at that time considered him a deviant.”
      “The teachers, their faces stern and unfriendly, averted their eyes from him as though he was a perverted deviant who had no right to be near the children.”
deviance
  1. (sociology) Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.
  2. A person or thing that differs from the expected. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Women's involvement in war and violence has often been perceived in terms of deviance and abnormity.”
      “He reinforced an Australian cultural stereotype which equated intellectualism with sexual deviance.”
      “Known for its dubious deviance from its claims, this issue is no different.”
deviationist
  1. One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Presumably the first Marxist deviationist was Marx himself, who made substantial changes in his ideas during his lifetime.”
      “Throughout Soviet history, every new leader claimed to be going back to pure Leninist principles, while labeling his predecessor a deviationist.”
      “You'd probably have to put me down as a revisionist Kautskyite Menshevik, or maybe a rightist deviationist with extreme petty bourgeois tendencies.”
deviationism
  1. Deviation from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of communism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Follow the revolutionary line of the Third Internationale in the heroic struggle against left deviationism!”
      “I intend to hold the Commissar for Justice to the CPGB's election promise when they come to lock me up for rightist deviationism.”
deviancy
  1. the state of being deviant, abnormal or anomalous
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Any deviancy is not the result of accident but indicates an unusual motive of the writer.”
      “Why do we spend so much energy understanding how people enter deviancy and no time understanding how they leave?”
      “It is thus advisable to tighten regulations on control and to make punishments for deviancy harsher.”
deviator
  1. That which deviates, or causes deviation
  2. Examples:
    1. “My previous panicking mode was distorted into a mischievous deviator that knew exactly what he was going to do.”
      “The deviator block was dimensioned at 1200 mm but scaled 1500 mm.”
      “Some deterrent mechanisms, such as punishing the deviator by temporarily engaging in a price war or increasing output significantly, may entail a short-term economic loss for the firms carrying out the retaliation.”
deviantization
  1. The process of deviantizing.
deviationisms
  1. plural of deviationism
deviationists
deviations
  1. plural of deviation
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Test scores, presented as unadjusted means and standard deviations for the major groups tested, show the magnitudes of the mean numerical scores.”
      “Sample means, trimmed means, medians, standard deviations, minimums, maximums, skewness and kurtosis are reported.”
      “All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.”
deviances
deviators
  1. plural of deviator
  2. Examples:
    1. “In the model, both the absolute number and the proportion of the deviators among the related actors matter.”
      “For Tories like Cartland, deviating from the Chamberlain line was seen as betrayal, not disagreement, and the deviators were subjected to raw schoolboy pressure.”
      “The later precedent is necessitated, as the church has been a known instrument of parallel ecclesiastical power and Inquisition against the errant and deviators.”
deviancies
deviates
deviants
  1. plural of deviant
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Poor people were looked upon as deviants within society well before the 20th century.”
      “Gays who were once considered deviants can now benefit from the security of legally sanctioned marriages.”
      “Norms use the clubs of stigma and shame to punish deviants, nonconformists, and radicals.”
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