The phrase "deviate from the target" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that something is straying from a specific goal or objective.
Example: "If we deviate from the target, we may not achieve the desired results by the end of the project."
Alternatives: "stray from the goal" or "diverge from the objective."
But the department could not deviate from the target unless it could demonstrate that the costs outweighed the benefits.
The idea is that the bullet would go exactly where it was meant to go, and not deviate from the target because of wind, gravity, or other factors.
Vitamin K antagonist use is limited, in part, by the high incidence of complications when patients' international normalized ratios (INRs) deviate from the target range.
There is a much wider availability of laboratory test facilities to study degradation at 20 °C than at lower temperatures, less risk of study temperatures to deviate from the target, and the costs are reduced.
On the other hand, the compositions of the thin films deposited in 200-mTorr Ar atmosphere are found to be very close to the target's composition when the substrate is placed inside of the plume and to deviate from the target's composition when the substrate is placed outside of the plume.
In contrast, a network obtained with neighbors of neighbors would be less vitamin-specific and applying model-based clustering on its centrality scores would deviate from the target (i.e., characterizing the multi-functional backbone formed by vitamin-proteins).
However, it seems more reasonable to assume that a quality loss is incurred by the user even when the index deviates from the target within the specification limits.
Hence, the operational definition of the target population in Germany deviates from the target population in the other countries to some extent, as it did not cover the real share of naturalised immigrants.
We tested the surgical system on a model of an adult deformed tibia and the resulting bone trajectory deviates from the target bone trajectory by 1.8 mm, which is below our defined threshold error of 2 mm.
When the measured coiling temperature deviates from the target value, it can be adjusted to the required range quickly and steadily by Smith predictor feedback control, which improves the coiling temperature control precision greatly, and qualities of hot rolled strips are improved significantly.
Under the Bank of England Act, on 16 April 2007, the governor (then Mervyn King), was obliged to write the first MPC open letter to the chancellor (then Gordon Brown), explaining why the inflation had deviated from the target of 2% and reached 3.1%.
