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variance 1. 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 2. (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 3. Chem the number of degrees of freedom of a system, used in the phase rule variance [′ver·ē·əns] (statistics) The square of the standard deviation. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Firmly resolved, after putting his affairs in order in the regiment, to retire from the army and return and marry Sonya, Nicholas, serious, sorrowful, and at variance with his parents, but, as it seemed to him, passionately in love, left at the beginning of January to rejoin his regiment. They were all similarly at variance in their descriptions of the figures themselves. And because it requireth elevation, therefore doth it require steps, and variance of steps and climbers |
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