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variance

/ˈvɛəriəns/  ·  say it: VAIR·ee·uhns

the fact of differing

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In more detail

1. (noun) the amount or degree to which something differs or changes from a standard or expected value

2. (noun) a difference or disagreement between things that should be the same

3. (noun) in statistics, a measure of how spread out data is from the average

Examples

• 1. The variance in test scores among students was quite large.
• 2. There was a variance between the two reports that needed to be explained.
• 3. The statistical variance shows how much the data deviates from the mean.

Nearby in Nuance & Precision

tolerance, discrepancy, disparity, deviation, anomaly, aberration