deviate

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

These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.

Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.

To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.

To cause to diverge.

A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.

[…] 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 […]

A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.

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.

deviant

It's somewhat in vogue to give special attention and consideration to the alternative lifestyle, which five years ago we would have called the deviate lifestyle.