variance
Definition 1
General: Difference between an expected and actual result, such as between a budget and actual expenditure.
Definition 2
Statistics: Arithmetic mean of the squares of the deviations of all items (in a set of numbers) from their arithmetic mean. Variance and its square root (the standard deviation) are of fundamental importance as a measure of dispersion.
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