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afvigelse — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • departure noun The act of leaving a place, especially at the start of a journey.
  • deviation noun A departure from an expected, planned, or normal course of action.
  • error noun A mistake, especially one made unintentionally.
  • inflection noun The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
  • variation noun A change, or the act of changing, in the form, amount, or quality of something.

Senses

afvigelse is used for these senses in English:

  • departure A deviation from a plan or procedure.
  • deviation The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
  • error (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
  • inflection A turning away from a straight course.
  • variation (nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north.

departure — full definition

  1. noun The act of leaving a place, especially at the start of a journey.
  2. noun A move away from what is usual, expected, or previously planned.

deviation — full definition

  1. noun A departure from an expected, planned, or normal course of action.
  2. noun In statistics, a measure of how far a single value differs from the average.

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