Meaning of Deviate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
2. A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.

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Examples

“[…] Walton has suggested that it is desirable "to name the phenomena signs of deviation, and call their possessors deviates or a deviate as the case may be […]”

“Under these conditions the person who appears as a deviate is a deviate only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court […]”

“[…] The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially […]”

“It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130 […]”

“This difference is called a deviate. When a deviate is divided by its SD a, it is called a relative deviate or a standard deviate.”

“This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt. We need to supply it with the probability (in this case p = 0.975) and the degrees of freedom...”

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