âº EVC System. A disabled refuge is a relatively safe area within a building or exit staircase for mobility impaired occupants, allowing building management and emergency services to safely assist these people from the building.
Standard deviation is a number used to tell how measurements for a group are spread out from the average (mean), or expected value. A low standard deviation means that most of the numbers are very close to the average. A high standard deviation means that the numbers are spread out.
DEFINITION of 'Standard Deviation'. 1. A measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean. The more spread apart the data, the higher the deviation. Standard deviation is calculated as the square root of variance.2. In finance, standard deviation is applied to the annual rate of return of an investment to measure the investment's volatility. measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean. The more spread apart the data, the higher the deviation. Standard deviation is calculated as the square root of variance. 2.