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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
variance
/ˈvɛːɹi.əns/
noun
(statistics) amount of difference in distributions
- “I need to calculate the mean and the variance.”Tatoeba
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)