Deviation vs. Departure — What's the Difference?

The action of departing from an established course or accepted standard

The act of leaving.

The amount by which a single measurement differs from a fixed value such as the mean

A starting out, as on a trip or a new course of action.

The deflection of a ship's compass needle caused by iron in the ship.

A divergence or deviation, as from an established rule, plan, or procedure

The act of deviating or turning aside.

(Nautical) The distance sailed due east or west by a ship on its course.

An instance of this

The act of departing or something that has departed.

Divergence from an accepted idea, policy, or norm of behavior

A deviation from a plan or procedure.

An instance of this; an abnormality or departure from a norm

(euphemism) A death.

Deflection of a compass needle caused by local magnetic influence, especially on a ship.

(navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.

(Statistics) The difference, especially the absolute difference, between one number in a set of data and the mean of that set of data.

(surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.

The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.

(legal) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another

A departure from the correct way of acting.

(obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

Division; separation; putting away.

A detour in a road or railway.

Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.

(aviation) A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.

Removal from the present life; death; decease.

(contract law) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.

Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.

(Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.

The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.

(statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.

The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

(metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.

Act of departing

The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.

A variation that deviates from the standard or norm;

The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

Euphemistic expressions for death;

The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.

The difference between an expected value of an observation or measurement and the actual value.

A variation that deviates from the standard or norm;

The difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function

The error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances

Deviate behavior

A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern);