Variance
['veərɪəns] or ['vɛrɪəns]
Definition
(noun.) an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation); 'a zoning variance'.
(noun.) the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.
(n.) Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Disagreement, difference, discord, dissension, jarring.[2]. (Law.) Variation, want of conformity (as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Difference, disagreement, discord, estrangement, antagonism, strife, hostility,discrepancy
ANT:Unity, reconciliation, harmony, agreement, pacification, peace, accommodation,consent
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Definition
n. state of being varied: an alteration: a change of condition: (law) a discrepancy: difference that arises from or produces dispute.—n. Vā′riant a different form of the same original word: a different reading e.g. in a manuscript.—adj. diverse variable inconstant.—At variance in disagreement.
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Examples
- It is a point difficult to fix where the features and countenance are so much at variance as in your case. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I lament afresh the cruel necessity which sets our interests at variance, and opposes us to each other. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The ideal is not easily reduced to the conditions of actual life, and may often be at variance with them. Plato. The Republic.
- She and his father had been at variance from his earliest remembrance. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It will set you and my uncle at variance, and bring Sir Percival here again with fresh causes of complaint-- So much the better! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I had never in the whole of my previous experience found my duty and my inclination so painfully and so unaccountably at variance as I found them now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Nor did he recognize that in the dialectical process are included two or more methods of investigation which are at variance with each other. Plato. The Republic.
- Adeimantus further argues that the ideal is wholly at variance with facts; for experience proves philosophers to be either useless or rogues. Plato. The Republic.
- However, though Meyler and I were eternally at variance when together, yet we were ever miserable and jealous whilst separated. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Where preconceived theory was at variance with observed facts, the former must of course give way. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But we cannot suit; we are ever at variance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Well, and is not this one quality, to mention no others, greatly at variance with present notions of him? Plato. The Republic.
- The ideas of humor among the green men of Mars are widely at variance with our conceptions of incitants to merriment. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Typist: Nigel