variance

a difference between two or more similar things, especially when this is large and noticeable

diferencia, variación

• there is a variance between A and B

Collocations a wide variance in sth · variance between two things

• There was a huge variance in the quality of work.

  Había una gran diferencia en la calidad del trabajo.

an official decision that allows someone to do something different from what is normally allowed by law or rules

excepción, permiso especial

• apply for a variance

Collocations a zoning variance · obtain a variance from the law

• The company applied for a variance to build on protected land.

  La empresa solicitó una excepción para construir en tierras protegidas.

a measure of how spread out numbers are in a set of data, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean

desviación estándar, varianza (en estadística)

• calculate the variance

Collocations variance analysis · sample variance

• The variance of test scores was surprisingly high.

  La varianza de las puntuaciones en los exámenes fue sorprendentemente alta.