comma vs deviation

comma

noun
  • A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways. 

  • A brief interval. 

  • In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma. 

  • The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. 

  • A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia. 

  • A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence. 

verb
  • To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas. 

deviation

noun
  • For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean. 

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

  • A detour in a road or railway. 

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

  • The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility. 

  • The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts. 

  • A departure from the correct way of acting. 

  • The signed difference between a value and its reference value. 

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

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