deviate

English

Etymology

Late Latin deviatus, past participle of deviare, from the phrase de via.

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • dē'vēāt, /ˈdiːvieɪt/, /"di:vieIt/
• Noun:
  • dē'vēət, /ˈdiːviət/, /"di:vi@t/

Noun

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...

Translations

• Finnish: poikkeava henkilö
• Danish: afvige

Verb

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.

   He's 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.

   • Alexander Pope

     Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.

Synonyms

• (change course): swerve, veer
• (stray): stray, wander

Translations

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

• Bulgarian: отклонявам се (otklonjavam se)
• Dutch: afwijken (nl)
• Finnish: poiketa (fi)
• French: dévier (fr)
• German: abweichen (de)

• Hebrew: סטה (satá)
• Latin: descisco
• Macedonian: да се застрани n (da se zastrani)
• Romanian: devia (ro)
• Russian: отклоняться (ru) impf (otklonját'sja), отклониться (ru) pf (otklonít'sja)

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

• Bulgarian: отклонявам се (otklonjavam se)
• Danish: deviere
• Finnish: poiketa (fi)
• German: abweichen (de)

• Latin: descisco
• Romanian: devia (ro)
• Russian: отклоняться (ru) impf (otklonját'sja), отклониться (ru) pf (otklonít'sja)
• Swedish: avvika (sv)

Related terms

• deviant
• deviation

Anagrams

• evadite

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Italian

Verb

deviate

1. second-person plural present tense, present subjunctive and imperative of deviare

Anagrams

• vediate
• videate

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Latin

Verb

dēviāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēviō