variancevar‧i‧ance /ˈveəriəns $ ˈver-/ AWL noun - The church requested a variance to expand its parking lot.
- A little variance in forecast numbers may be anticipated as a consequence.
- Survey data indicate no variance in church attendance between blue- and white-collar workers.
- The variance explained by these two simulations is 60.8% and 60.6%, respectively.
- There was, moreover, a vehemence of utterance and gesture curiously at variance with the reticence of our Virginians.
- This was at variance with the Eurocheque system as exempted by the Commission in 1984.
- Tobacco consumption was the most important factor to explain the variance.
ADJECTIVE► mean· Roll argued that the true market portfolio is a mean variance efficient portfolio and can not be observed.· To obtain quantitative information from the mean and variance data requires the assumption of a more constrained model of the release process.
► total· The proportion of the total variance such correlations account for is of course small and their importance should be judged accordingly.· On average he found that the model explained 27 percent of the total variance of returns.· The best results were for the Ford Motor and the Dana corporations which predicted 45 percent of the total variance of returns.· In other words just over 12 percent of the total variance is still accounted for by non-market factors.
► be at variance (with somebody/something)- Her current statement is at variance with what she said July 10.
- Cabinet's vision of the Task Force was at variance with Heseltine's own ideas.
- It is quite clear that this thread of non-incrimination is at variance with the recent emphasis on obtaining confession evidence.
- The Communists were at variance with all their previous allies and there was room for an alternative viewpoint.
- The research examines this conclusion since it is at variance with rational economic planning.
- The Spirit reconciles men who were at variance.
- There is likely to be material that is at variance with your own views.
- This shows a Spartan caution which is at variance with their previous bellicosity over Samos.
- This was at variance with the Eurocheque system as exempted by the Commission in 1984.
nounvariablevariancevariantvarietyvariabilityvariationadjectivevariable ≠ invariablevariedvariousadverbvariably ≠ invariablyvariouslyverbvary