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

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. variance: Encyclopedia

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