deviate

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

• To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
• To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
• To cause to diverge.

Related

Similar words

• swerve, veer
• stray, wander

Origin

• Late Latin deviatus, past participle of deviare, from the phrase de via.