variance
nounUK /ˈveəriəns/
US /ˈveriəns/
A variance is a difference between things that are not the same.
There was a small variance between the two test scores.
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2. Official permission to do something that is usually not allowed.
The city granted a variance so they could build a taller fence.
3. In math, a measure of how spread out a set of numbers is.
The teacher explained how to calculate the variance of the data.
4. A disagreement or dispute between people.
The two neighbors had a variance over the property line.