deviations

What she and Gallo looked for were significant deviations from that stable average.

The magnitudes of the changes were calculated in terms of standard deviations, which are used in statistics to convey how tightly a group of data points is clustered together.

In doing so, it paints policy ideas now popular on the right as strange deviations from American values.

Their experiments showed that the microscopic channels following the newly proposed Universal Murray's Law offer minimum resistance against fluid flow, while deviations from this Law increase the flow resistance.

Small changes in the atmosphere now can cause big deviations in weather patterns many days or weeks ahead.