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The act of varying.
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The state or quality of being variant or variable; a variation.
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A difference between what is expected and what actually occurs.
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The state or fact of differing or of being in conflict. See Synonyms at discord.
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Law A discrepancy between two statements or documents in a proceeding.
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The act of varying or the quality, state, or degree of being divergent; discrepancy
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American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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An instance of diverging; dissension
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A measure of dispersion obtained by taking the mean of the squared deviations of the observed values from their mean in a frequency distribution
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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
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(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
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The number of degrees of freedom of a system, used in the phase rule
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The difference between actual and standard costs of production
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