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poikkeama

Pronunciation: /ˈpoi̯kːeɑmɑ/

“poikkeama” is a Finnish word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. deviation, aberration (state or result of having deviated, e.g. from a path or a procedure)
  2. anomaly (any event, big or small, out of the ordinary)
  3. deviation (from the route)
  4. diversion, unscheduled landing (unscheduled landing, possibly back to its departure airport, the cause of which is not severe enough to be an emergency landing)
  5. aberration (minor or temporary mental disorder)
  6. aberration (convergence to different foci)
  7. aberration (deviation from normal range)
  8. deviation (measure of difference between the observed value and the mean)
  9. deviation (hortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts)
  10. deflection (deviation of a needle)

Etymology

poiketa (“to deviate”) + -ma

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