The difference between Deviation and Difference
When used as nouns, deviation means the act of deviating, whereas difference means the quality of being different.
Difference is also verb with the meaning: to distinguish or differentiate.
check bellow for the other definitions of Deviation and Difference
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Deviation as a noun:
The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road
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Deviation as a noun:
A departure from the correct way of acting
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Deviation as a noun:
The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
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Deviation as a noun (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.
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Deviation as a noun (Absolute Deviation):
The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
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Deviation as a noun (statistics):
For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
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Deviation as a noun (metrology):
The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
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Difference as a noun (uncountable):
The quality of being different.
Examples:
"You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference."
"ant identity sameness"
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Difference as a noun (countable):
A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
Examples:
"There are three differences between these two pictures."
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Difference as a noun (countable):
A disagreement or argument.
Examples:
"We have our little differences, but we are firm friends."
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Difference as a noun (countable, uncountable):
Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
Examples:
"It just won't make much difference to me."
"It just won't make much of a difference to anyone."
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Difference as a noun (countable):
The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
Examples:
"The difference between 3 and 21 is 18."
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Difference as a noun (obsolete):
Choice; preference.
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Difference as a noun (heraldry):
An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See and .
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Difference as a noun (logic):
The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
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Difference as a noun (logic circuits):
A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B).
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Difference as a noun (relational algebra):
the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).
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Difference as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To distinguish or differentiate.
Examples:
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