avvikelse — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abnormality noun A feature or condition that departs from what is normal or expected.
- anomaly noun Something that deviates from what is normal or expected; an irregularity.
- departure noun The act of leaving a place, especially at the start of a journey.
- deviance noun Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.
- deviation noun A departure from an expected, planned, or normal course of action.
- difference noun The way in which two or more things are unlike each other.
- digression noun An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.
- kink noun A tight twist or bend in something that is normally straight, such as hair, rope, or wire.
- slip verb To lose one's footing or grip and slide accidentally.
- variation noun A change, or the act of changing, in the form, amount, or quality of something.
Senses
avvikelse is used for these senses in English:
- abnormality Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
- departure A deviation from a plan or procedure.
- deviance (sociology) Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.
- difference (uncountable) The quality of being different.
- difference (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
- digression (generally, _, uncountable) The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly for rhetorical effect.
- slip (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- variation (nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north.