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noun

Variance n.

The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.

Difference that produces dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel. "That which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance."

(Law) A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof.

(Statistics) The expected value of the square of the deviation from the mean of a randomly distributed variable; the second moment about the mean. This is also the square of the standard deviation.

At variance, in disagreement; in a state of dissension or controversy; at enmity. "What cause brought him so soon at variance with himself?"

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Etymology of 'Variance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Variance" Quotes from Famous Books

... in such an unusual degree, doubted the Negro's courage, till the splendid record of the '60's and the equal, but more recent, record of the '90's, wrote forbearance as the real explanation of an endurance seemingly so at variance with ...

— The Negro Problem • Booker T. Washington, et al.

... rest satisfied with certain external acts, but claimed an authority over the whole inward man and the most hidden movement of the heart; the feeling of moral independence took refuge in the domain of honour, a worldly morality, as it were, which subsisting alongside of, was often at variance with that of religion, but yet in so far resembling it that it never calculated consequences, but consecrated unconditionally certain principles of action, which like the articles of faith, were elevated far beyond the ...

— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel

... few cases, as in radium and uranium, it would appear that this unit is unstable and undergoes transformation into more stable combinations. This modification would not, in any essential way, be at variance with the atomic theory as propounded ...

— An Elementary Study of Chemistry • William McPherson

... what you are doing. I saw your name down as one of the indefatigable guardians of the eighteen hundred philosophers. I was delighted to see this, for when we last left Cambridge you were at sad variance with poor science; you seemed to think her a public prostitute working for popularity. If your opinions are the same as formerly, you would agree most admirably with Captain Fitz-Roy,— the object of his most devout abhorrence is one of the d—d scientific Whigs. As captains of ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin

... Baron; "a generous confession is only a proof of growing wisdom. You are now sensible, that the best of us are liable to imposition. The artifices of this unworthy kinsman have set us at variance with each other, and driven away an excellent youth from this house, to go I know not whither; but he shall no longer triumph in his wickedness; he shall feel what it is to be banished from the house of his protector. He shall set out for his mother's this ...

— The Old English Baron • Clara Reeve

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