Deviation vs Reform - What's the difference?
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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.
The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
(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.
(Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
(statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
(metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct.
* Jonathan Swift
To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a person of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
(intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=August 21
, author=Jason Heller
, title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)
, work=The Onion AV Club
Deviation is a related term of reform.
As nouns the difference between deviation and reform
is that deviation is diversion; different route to travel while reform is reform.deviation
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* absolute deviation * average deviation * deviation ratio * immune deviation * mean deviation * quartile deviation * relative deviation * sexual deviation * signed deviation * standard deviationreform
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(en noun)Synonyms
* reformation * amendment * rectification * correctionDerived terms
* monetary reformVerb
(en verb)- to reform''' a profligate man; to '''reform corrupt manners or morals
- The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
- This product contains reformed meat.
- The regiment reformed after surviving the first attack.
- The pop group reformed for one final tour.
citation, page= , passage=Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes —the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.}}