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Abstract The pitch deviation of gears caused by machining leads to corner contact in actual meshing process. In order to study the influence of the pitch deviation on motion characteristics of the spur gear pair, meshing state functions are constructed to reflect multi-state meshing including mesh-in at corner contact, mesh-out at corner contact, single and double pair drive-side teeth mesh, single and double pair back-side teeth contact and tooth disengagement. The nonlinear dynamics model of spur gear pair with pitch deviations under multi-state meshing is established. Variation laws of dynamic meshing forces and meshing states for the spur gear pair are analyzed. The influence of main parameters on nonlinear dynamics of the spur gear pair with pitch deviations is investigated. Results indicate that the pitch deviation results in complex periodic motion as a short-period error in spur gear pair. It mainly affects transmission stability of the spur gear pair by changing meshing states. This investigation provides a theoretical basis for the parameter design of the spur gear transmission system and the influence of pitch deviation in other gear transmission systems.