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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 'At variance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"At variance" Quotes from Famous Books

... a fantastic "rockery" of skulls and shanks and ribs, and filled it in with earth, enough to furnish growth for trailing nasturtiums, whose bright red and yellow blossoms were strangely at variance with their ...

— The Second Chance • Nellie L. McClung

... ambition many times in several things flies too high, and oft-times also doth not happen to be very suitable with the constitution of the cash; he dares in no wise contradict her, for he fears that she will presently be at variance with him again: And thinks in the interim, whilest her mind hangs upon these things, she forgets her maunding and mumbling for a child. Still hoping that there will come one happy night, that may crown his earnest desires with fructivity; this it is that makes him that he dares ...

— The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) • A. Marsh

... words of apparent vexation were at variance with the kindness of his eyes as they rested ...

— The Day of the Beast • Zane Grey

... his imagination—it was certain that he would go back there. And Miss Bell had been in it and of it—so much in it and of it that he felt impatient with her for permitting herself to be herself in any other environment. He asked himself why she could not see that she was crudely at variance with all color and atmosphere and law in her present one, and he speculated as to the propriety of telling her so, of advising her outright as to the expediency in her own interest, of being other than herself in London. That was what it came to, he reflected in deciding that he could not—if ...

— A Daughter of To-Day • Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes)

... said, approaching me with an almost military step, much at variance with the shadow upon his countenance, "I fear I have been rude to Miss ...

— The Seaboard Parish Vol. 2 • George MacDonald

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