variance

«variance» in Mova's school dictionary: difference or disagreement — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (variance)

meaning for a pupil

Variance is difference or disagreement. The phrase «at variance» means not in agreement with someone or something. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales, people are at variance with their friends, their country or themselves

examples

• The two brothers were at variance over the gold. tree →
• His words are at variance with his actions. tree →
• The man was at variance with himself. tree →

note

nothing for maths; in statistics variance measures how far numbers spread, which is beyond this dictionary

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «variance» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.