Usually means: Differences between expected and actual.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. variances: Merriam-Webster
  2. variances: Collins English Dictionary
  3. variances: Vocabulary.com
  4. Variances, variances: Wordnik
  5. variances: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. variances: Wiktionary
  7. variances: Dictionary.com
  8. variances: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. variances: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. variances: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Health Insurance Glossary (No longer online)
  3. variances: Legal dictionary
  4. variances: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. variances: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. variances: Medical dictionary

(Note: See variance as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (variance)

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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