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poikkeaminen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • deviation noun A departure from an expected, planned, or normal course of action.
  • digression noun An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.

Senses

poikkeaminen is used for these senses in English:

  • deviation The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
  • digression (generally, _, uncountable) The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly for rhetorical effect.

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.

digression — full definition

  1. noun An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.
  2. noun The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly for rhetorical effect.
  3. noun A deviancy, a sin or error, an act of straying from the path of righteousness or a general rule.
  4. noun A deviation, an act of straying from a path.

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