Deviance: alternatives and connections

Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objec…

Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inc…

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to…

To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.

To part; to divide; to separate.

To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.

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Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion.

To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in…

To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to…

To wander; to roam; to stray.

To go out of the track; to deviate.

The descent of a hill.

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a ro…

Want of decorum; impropriety of behavior; that in behavior or manners which violates the established rules of civility, custom, or eti…

A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial…