DEVIATE

I. verb (-ated; -ating) see: way Date: circa 1633 intransitive verb to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic, to depart from an established course or norm , transitive verb to cause to turn out of a previous course, see: swerve deviator noun deviatory adjective II. noun Date: 1912 one that ~s from a norm, a statistical variable that gives the deviation of another variable from a fixed value (as the mean), III. adjective Date: 1929 departing significantly from the behavioral norms of a particular society