deviation

The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.

A departure from the correct way of acting.

The combination of Archie Jones’s working-class, Cockney accent, Samad’s Asian-English and Clara’s Creolized Caribbean English represent socio-linguistic deviations from Standard English as the centripetal forces of language undermining any notion of a homoglossic centre to the nation’s language and culture.

The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

mankind’s deviation from divine will

A detour in a road or railway.

"A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to."

A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.

The flightcrew observed en route thunderstorms both visually and on the airplane's weather radar, so they requested and received clearance for a deviation to the left of course from the HNL Combined Center Radar Approach Control (CERAP).