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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
deviation
/diviˈeɪʃən/
noun
not standard or normal; in statistics: the difference between one of a set of values and some fixed value, usually the mean of the set.
- “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”Tatoeba
- “Let's have a look at the standard deviation.”Tatoeba
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)