deviation

noun9

1. •
   The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.
2. •
   A departure from the correct way of acting.
3. •
   The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

   • mankind’s deviation from divine will
4. •
   The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
5. •
   For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
6. •
   The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
7. •
   A detour in a road or railway.

   • "A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to." — 1938
8. •
   A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.
9. •
   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.