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deviate | null |

As nouns the difference between deviate and null

is that deviate is (sociology) a person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb deviate

is to go off course from; to change course; to change plans.

deviate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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]
  • ...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...
  • * 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]
  • 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 ...
  • * 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]
  • ...The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially...
  • (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]
  • It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130...
  • * 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]
  • 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.
  • * 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]
  • 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)
  • To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
  • He's deviating from the course. Follow him!
  • To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
  • His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from local censorship norms .
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.

    Synonyms

    * (change course ): swerve, veer * (stray ): stray, wander

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----