(n.) The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.
(n.) The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only in 17 of the 97 examinees all the examined parameters were found normal, in the rest deviations from the normal echographic picture were revealed.
(2) Deviations in two planes simultaneously cause less error than deviation in one plane.
(3) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
(4) This study examined the frequency of occurrence of velar deviations in spontaneous single-word utterances over a 6-month period for 40 children who ranged in age from 1:11 (years:months) to 3:1 at the first observation.
(5) The average lung density, its standard deviation which was used as a measure of the density homogeneity throughout the lung, and the densities of smaller lung regions were measured before and up to 76 weeks after irradiation in rat lungs.
(6) The zeta potential as a function of ionic strength deviates significantly from the predictions of the double-layer theory in the 10(-3)-5.10(-2) M range.
(7) The most striking differences were observed on the factors: Psychopathic deviation, Mania, Schizophrenia greater than controls and social introversion lower than controls.
(8) A maximum deviation of approximately 10% was found.
(9) Deviations from isotropic motion observed for the non-aromatic moieties are discussed.
(10) The most substantial deviations between actual and theoretical osmolarity values occurred with the calcium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, potassium chloride and dextrose solutions.
(11) Deviations from Michealis-Menten kinetics in the pig-heart citrate synthase (citrate-oxaloacetate-lyase(pro-3S-CH2-COO-leads to acetyl-CoA), EC 4.1.3.7) system have been characterized and analyzed in view of the kinetic theory described in the preceding paper.
(12) Finally, the in vivo loss of cholesterol feedback control was found to occur in at least two minimal deviation hepatomas and in one highly malignant adenocarcinoma of hepatic origin.
(13) For data sampled at a high rate (approximately 200 Hz) pupil velocity deviations from zero can simply be used, giving a satisfactory inaccuracy of about 5 ms. For data sampled at a low rate (less than 50 Hz), e.g.
(14) Breakpoints and other deviations from a linear PPR over the whole ICP range are studied by the analysis of the transfer function.
(15) The three counties sampled showed surprisingly little deviation in the percentages of inventories suggesting alcohol production and in the preferences for specific types of drinks.
(16) The fraction of ligands that initially escaped into the solvent decreased when the temperature was lowered, and the Arrhenius plots for the rebinding rate coefficients were found to deviate significantly from linearity.
(17) The jaw deviated to the right when he opened his mouth fully.
(18) With the Cardiovascular Measurement System (CMS), 1 standard deviation for repeat measurements of minimum diameter increased from 0.087 mm (same frame to 0.240 mm (films one to 6 months apart).
(19) The standard deviations were greatest when the AI was near 50% and least when the AI was near 0% or 100%.
(20) Variability of basal blood flow in terms of standard deviations and in terms of coefficients of variation computed from duplicate determinations were significantly higher than for the other parameters and significantly more elevated in the forearm than in the calf.
Lax
Definition:
(v. t.) Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
(v. t.) Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
(v. t.) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
(n.) A looseness; diarrhea.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(2) These blood flow and temperature changes also occurred when ELV animals were subjected to simultaneous LAX.
(3) The universal credit scheme has been overseen by "alarmingly weak" management, with systems so lax that a secretary was allowed to authorise purchase orders worth £23m , according to the public accounts committee.
(4) Approximately 27% of the individuals had 1 lax joint, whereas only 3% possessed all 5 features.
(5) Traders, enabled by lax futures regulations, are perhaps the only people to see the bright side of the beating sun.
(6) The retracted lower eyelid is tight in contrast to the lax lower eyelid of the common involutional ectropion.
(7) Roundish cells, appearing to be myofibroblasts surrounded by a more lax connective tissue and elastic fibers, were found close to the Dacron threads.
(8) Although only flights to Sharm have been suspended, there is worry about Egyptian airports in general over alleged lax screening amid heightened fears over terrorism, a security source said.
(9) The coroner cited "inadequate" training and "lax" supervision as factors in the tragedies.
(10) These include eyelid laxity with or without atrophic orbicularis muscle tone, lax canthal tendons, hypoplastic malar eminences, unrecognized Graves' ophthalmopathy, unilateral high myopia, or the secondary blepharoplasty.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump comments on death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin – video Welcome to Iowa, where Trump's purple patch could turn a blue state red Read more Pence rejected a suggestion by CNN host Jake Tapper that lax gun safety laws in his own state, Indiana, may be stoking violence in Chicago.
(12) Obama administration officials had promised to toughen the lax environmental regulations of the George Bush era.
(13) This decade, on the other hand, has been relatively lax when it comes to pumping out neuron-destroying musical inanity.
(14) The apparently lax oversight of the company's financial regime by the energy regulator was heavily criticised last week by Tim Yeo, the former chairman of parliament's energy and climate change committee.
(15) The examination of parental attitude in dealing with the possibility of accidents (instructive, lax or repressive) did not allow us to demonstrate in any significant way the influence of these attitudes on accidental morbidity.
(16) To date, they have been too lax, and moved too slowly, allowing racists a free rein.” Cooper called on “companies like Twitter to take stronger action against hate crimes on their platforms”.
(17) All emergency department, LAX first-aid station, and paramedic records were examined.
(18) Why so tough on skilled migrants and so lax on boat arrivals?
(19) Analysts have for years been complaining about what they believe to be lax accounting standards in Britain's travel industry, where one-off write-offs are not uncommon.
(20) In order to address those concerns the two companies gave up gate slots and takeoffs at major US airports including Washington DC’s Reagan national, New York’s LaGuardia, Boston's Logan and LAX in Los Angeles.