variance

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvɛə.ɹi.əns/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvɛː.ɹi.əns/
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• US: /ˈvæɹ.i.əns/ without the Mary–marry–merry merger
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• /ˈvɛɹ.i.əns/ US, Mary–marry–merry merger, Canada
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• Australian: /ˈveː.ɹi.əns/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈveə.ɹi.əns/ without the cheer–chair merger
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• /ˈviə.ɹi.əns/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
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• CMU ARPABET: V EH1 R IY0 AH0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English variance, variaunce, equivalent to vary + -ance, from Old French variance or directly from Anglo-Latin variaunce, veriaunce, wariaunce; all from Latin variantia.

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: променливост (promenlivost) — act of varying or the state of being variable
• Dutch: afwijkend — act of varying or the state of being variable
• Finnish: vaihtelu — act of varying or the state of being variable
• Georgian: სხვადასხვაობა (sxvadasxvaoba) — act of varying or the state of being variable
• Georgian: განსხვავება (gansxvaveba) — act of varying or the state of being variable
• Portuguese: variância — act of varying or the state of being variable
• Romanian: variere — act of varying or the state of being variable
• Russian: расхожде́ние (rasxoždénije) — act of varying or the state of being variable
• Bulgarian: различие (različie) — difference between what is expected and what happens
• Dutch: onverwacht — difference between what is expected and what happens
• Finnish: poikkeama — difference between what is expected and what happens
• Romanian: variație — difference between what is expected and what happens
• Bulgarian: разногла́сие (raznoglásie) — state of differing or being in conflict
• Dutch: contradictorisch — state of differing or being in conflict
• Finnish: eripuraisuus — state of differing or being in conflict
• Finnish: erimielisyys — state of differing or being in conflict
• Georgian: უთანხმოება (utanxmoeba) — state of differing or being in conflict
• Georgian: ურთიერთწინააღმდეგობა (urtiertc̣inaaɣmdegoba) — state of differing or being in conflict
• Romanian: contradicție — state of differing or being in conflict
• Romanian: diferență — state of differing or being in conflict
• Russian: разногла́сие (raznoglásije) — state of differing or being in conflict
• Russian: противоре́чие (protivoréčije) — state of differing or being in conflict
• Bulgarian: несъотве́тствие (nesǎotvétstvie) — discrepancy, especially between two legal documents
• Dutch: tegenspraak — discrepancy, especially between two legal documents
• Finnish: ristiriita — discrepancy, especially between two legal documents
• Georgian: შეუსაბამობა (šeusabamoba) — discrepancy, especially between two legal documents
• Romanian: discrepanță — discrepancy, especially between two legal documents
• Russian: расхожде́ние (rasxoždénije) — discrepancy, especially between two legal documents
• Russian: несоотве́тствие (nesootvétstvije) — discrepancy, especially between two legal documents
• Arabic: تَبَايُن (tabāyun) — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Basque: bariantza — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Chinese Mandarin: 方差 (fāngchā) — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Chinese Mandarin: 變異數 /变异数 (biànyìshù) — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Czech: rozptyl — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Danish: varians — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Dutch: variantie — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Finnish: varianssi — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• French: variance — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• German: Varianz — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Indonesian: variansi — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Indonesian: ragam — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Italian: varianza — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Japanese: 分散 (bunsan) — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Malay: varians — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Polish: wariancja — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Portuguese: variância — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Russian: диспе́рсия (dispérsija) — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Russian: отклоне́ние (otklonénije) — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Spanish: varianza — second central moment in probability (statistics)
• Tagalog: alig — second central moment in probability (statistics)