Variance (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. the state, quality, or fact of being variable, divergent, different, or anomalous.
  2. an instance of varying; difference; discrepancy.
  3. the square of the standard deviation.
  4. the number of degrees of freedom of a system.
  5. Law.
    • a difference or discrepancy, as between two statements or documents in law that should agree.
    • a departure from the cause of action originally stated in the complaint.
  6. an official permit to do something normally forbidden by regulations, especially by building in a way or for a purpose normally forbidden by a zoning law or a building code.
  7. a disagreement, dispute, or quarrel.
Idioms
  1. at variance,
    • (of things) in a state of difference or disagreement.
    • (of persons) in a state of controversy or dissension: at variance with one's superiors.
noun
  1. the act of varying or the quality, state, or degree of being divergent; discrepancy
  2. an instance of diverging; dissension
  3. at variance
    • (of facts, etc) not in accord; conflicting
    • (of persons) in a state of dissension
  4. a measure of dispersion obtained by taking the mean of the squared deviations of the observed values from their mean in a frequency distribution
  5. a difference or discrepancy between two steps in a legal proceeding, esp between a statement in a pleading and the evidence given to support it
  6. (in the US and Canada) a licence or authority issued by the board of variance to contravene the usual rule, esp to build contrary to the provision of a zoning code
  7. the number of degrees of freedom of a system, used in the phase rule
  8. the difference between actual and standard costs of production
Variance (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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