Usually means: Strays from an established course.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. deviates: Merriam-Webster
  2. deviates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deviates: Vocabulary.com
  4. deviates: Wordnik
  5. deviates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. deviates: Wiktionary
  7. deviates: Dictionary.com
  8. deviates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. deviates: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. deviates: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deviates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deviates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. deviates: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deviate)

verb:  (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to diverge.
noun:  (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
noun:  (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
adjective:  (sociology) deviant
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