Anomaly vs Deviate - What's the difference?
anomaly | deviate |
A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 43
Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
(science) Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
(astronomy) Any of various angular distances.
(biology) A defect or malformation.
(quantum physics) A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
(dated) An irregularity or disproportion.
(sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
* 1915: James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC56783761&id=4B7nMfNnIZkC&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&dq=%22a+deviate%22&as_brr=1]
* 1959: Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00181184&id=J24AAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+deviate%22&dq=%22a+deviate%22&pgis=1]
* 2001: Rupert Brown, Group Processes [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0631184961&id=e-9OtYRo45cC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=GsTXt6FCAxGzfu9Z1Y5DBjGXb-0]
(statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
* 1928: Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education [http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN28006559&id=sKTVf2R9QcQC&q=%22a+deviate%22&dq=%22a+deviate%22&pgis=1]
* 2001: Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0824704266&id=DHkXkXhpryAC&pg=RA20-PA279&lpg=RA20-PA279&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=V0CUzyD7DlXKCm_ehD84Trl8J5g]
* 2005: Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0470022973&id=czbzO5iD1Z0C&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=-Erqbq87cIuqSaSOjXqw7Edaabo]
To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
* Alexander Pope
As nouns the difference between anomaly and deviate
is that anomaly is a deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal while deviate is (sociology) a person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.As a verb deviate is
to go off course from; to change course; to change plans.anomaly
English
(wikipedia anomaly)Noun
(anomalies)- This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
- He is an anomaly among his friends.
Synonyms
* (deviation from the norm) abnormality, deviance, deviation, exception, inconsistency, irregularity, phenomenonDerived terms
() * anomaloscope * anomalous * eccentric anomaly * flyby anomaly * mean anomaly * true anomalyExternal links
* * *deviate
English
Noun
(en noun)- ...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...
Verb
(deviat)- He's deviating from the course. Follow him!
- His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from local censorship norms .
- Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.