up to, 1  as far as or approaching (a certain part, degree, point, etc.): She went wading up to her knees. I am up to the eighth lesson. 2  in full realization or attainment of: He worked up to president of the company. 3  as many as; to the limit of: The car will seat up to five persons.
The standard deviation is a measure of how the data is clustered about the mean. For large sets of data, approximately 68.3% of the data lies within one standard deviation of the mean and approximately 95.4% of the data lies within two standard deviations of the mean.
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.Standard deviation is also known as historical volatility and is used by investors as a gauge for the amount of expected 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.