Examples of “deviation” in a Sentence

noun A departure from an expected, planned, or normal course of action.

• Any deviation from the safety procedure must be reported immediately.
• Her essay showed a clear deviation from the usual exam answer.
• The pilot explained that the long deviation from the planned route was due to bad weather.

noun In statistics, a measure of how far a single value differs from the average.

• The standard deviation tells you how spread out the data is.
• Each student's deviation from the class average was shown in a column beside their score.
• A small deviation from the mean suggests the measurements were all quite similar.