deviation : Idioms & Phrases
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Deviation of a falling body
(Physics) , that deviation from a strictly vertical line of descent which occurs in a body falling freely, in consequence of the rotation of the earth.
Webster 1913
Deviation of the compass
- the angle which the needle of a ship's compass makes with the magnetic meridian by reason of the magnetism of the iron parts of the ship.
Webster 1913
Deviation of the line of the vertical
- the difference between the actual direction of a plumb line and the direction it would have if the earth were a perfect ellipsoid and homogeneous, caused by the attraction of a mountain, or irregularities in the earth's density.
Webster 1913
mean deviation
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noun the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of deviations from the mean of a distribution
mean deviation.
WordNet
mean deviation from the mean
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noun the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of deviations from the mean of a distribution
mean deviation.
WordNet
standard deviation
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noun the square root of the variance