The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
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.
For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
A regulating principle.
A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
A normal condition or state of affairs.
A regulation, law, guideline.
An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
To decide judicially.
To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
To excel.