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Umleitung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • detour noun An indirect route taken instead of the direct one.
  • deviation noun A departure from an expected, planned, or normal course of action.
  • diversion noun Something done to distract attention from what is really happening.
  • redirection noun The act of setting a new direction.
  • roundabout noun A road junction where traffic circles around a central island instead of stopping at lights.

Senses

Umleitung is used for these senses in English:

detour — full definition

  1. noun An indirect route taken instead of the direct one.
  2. verb To take, or send someone on, an indirect route.

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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