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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

... the committee on the part of the House and that on the part of the Senate were so widely at variance, that it was found that no result could be obtained in which both committees would concur. It was finally agreed that the committee on the part of the House should report their project to the House for consideration. Mr. Adams, thereupon, as chairman, reported ...

— Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. • Josiah Quincy

... and a Council was called to which the Osages, Potawatomies, Shians, Sac and Foxes, in fact all the tribes at variance, ...

— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel

... court, with an old pump in the centre to awaken the fancy, and frequent visits from more or less diabolical street-boys, to excite the imagination. Beyond that there was the mews, in which a lively scene of variance between horses and men was enacted from morning till night—a scene which derived much additional charm from the fact that Mrs Willis, being short-sighted, formed fearfully incorrect estimates of men, and beasts, ...

— My Doggie and I • R.M. Ballantyne

... had been disappointed in her husband's character; she had found that his handsome face and gay air masked a cowardice, a cunning meanness, a sordid selfishness of disposition that were all at variance with her high ideal of him; but that final unspeakable treachery of the dead man who had trusted him so implicitly shattered her love ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IV. • Editors: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... thrown upon him by his reviewers, who have claimed that his theories have no foundation, his arguments no reason, and that his utterances are vapid, blasphemous, and unworthy a reply. He said that their statements and their actions were sadly at variance, for, while declaring him a senseless idiot, they spent hours in striving to prove themselves not idiots; in other words, in one breath they declare that his views were absolutely without point, and needed no explaining away; while in direct rebuttal of this ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll

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