1. Noun
The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.
2. Noun
Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.
3. Noun
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.
4. noun
A measure of how spread out a set of values is.
A measure of how widely values are spread around their mean.
5. Noun
an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation); "a zoning variance"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
6. Noun
the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value
Vocabulary classified under Mathematics
7. Noun
the quality of being subject to variation
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
8. Noun
a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
9. Noun
discord that splits a group
Vocabulary classified under Linguistics
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