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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variance/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variance/#x1)
- His words are at variance with his actions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variance/#x2)
- The man was at variance with himself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variance/#x3)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.