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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

偏差

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hensha

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Deviation/ˌdiːviˈeɪʃən/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"期待値との偏差が大きかった。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The action of departing from an established course or accepted standard.

    "The deviation from the original plan caused delays in the project."
  2. 2

    A difference or variation from a norm or expected value.

    "In statistics, a deviation indicates how much a data point differs from the mean."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin deviationem, stemming from deviare (to turn aside from a course), composed of de- (away, off) + via (way, road). Entering Middle English in the 15th century, the term originally denoted physical departure from a path before broadening to describe statistical, moral, or behavioral departures from a standard or norm.

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