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Deviation vs Transcursion - What's the difference?

deviation | transcursion |

As nouns the difference between deviation and transcursion

is that deviation is diversion; different route to travel while transcursion is (obsolete) a rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.

deviation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * absolute deviation * average deviation * deviation ratio * immune deviation * mean deviation * quartile deviation * relative deviation * sexual deviation * signed deviation * standard deviation

    Related terms

    * deviance * deviate * deviant

    transcursion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 84:
    • "And if Man'' were out of the world, who were then left to ''view'' the face of ''Heaven'', to ''wonder'' at the transcursion of ''Comets "
  • * Francis Bacon
    • In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.