Usually means: Measure of data spread squared.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. variance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. variance: Merriam-Webster
  3. variance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. variance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. variance: Collins English Dictionary
  6. variance: Vocabulary.com
  7. Variance, variance: Wordnik
  8. variance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. variance: Wiktionary
  10. variance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. variance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. variance: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. variance: Dictionary.com
  14. variance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. variance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Variance (accounting), Variance (computer science), Variance (disambiguation), Variance (land use), Variance (magazine), Variance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Variance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. variance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. variance: Rhymezone
  20. Variance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. variance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. variance: FreeDictionary.org
  23. variance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. variance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. variance: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. variance: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. variance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  5. variance: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. VARIANCE: Accounting Glossary
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. Variance: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  12. variance: Glossary of research economics
  13. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  14. Variance: Harvey Financial
  15. Variance: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  16. variance: Finance-Glossary.com
  17. Glossary of Error-Proofing Terms (No longer online)
  18. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  19. Variance: Investopedia
  20. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  21. variance: Legal dictionary
  22. variance: Financial dictionary
  23. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  24. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  25. Variance: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. variance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. variance: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. variance: Idioms

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)
  3. Variance: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Variance: Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms
  5. variance: Evolution Glossary
  6. variance: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  7. Statistics (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)
  9. Variance: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Variance: Dan's Poker
  2. Variance (of a Rollout): Backgammon
  3. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Variance: Poker Terms

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Variance: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
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  3. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of varying or the state of being variable.
noun:  A difference between what is expected and what is observed; deviation.
noun:  The state of differing or being in conflict.
noun:  An official permit to do something that is ordinarily forbidden by regulations.
noun:  (law) A discrepancy between two legal documents.
noun:  (law) A departure from a cause of action originally in a complaint.
noun:  (statistics) The second central moment in probability.
noun:  (physics, chemistry, biology) The number of degrees of freedom in a system.
noun:  (computing, programming) Covariance and contravariance generally.

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