Variance

(noun.) an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation); 'a zoning variance'.

(noun.) the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value.

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• It is a point difficult to fix where the features and countenance are so much at variance as in your case. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I lament afresh the cruel necessity which sets our interests at variance, and opposes us to each other. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The ideal is not easily reduced to the conditions of actual life, and may often be at variance with them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• She and his father had been at variance from his earliest remembrance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It will set you and my uncle at variance, and bring Sir Percival here again with fresh causes of complaint-- So much the better! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I had never in the whole of my previous experience found my duty and my inclination so painfully and so unaccountably at variance as I found them now. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Nor did he recognize that in the dialectical process are included two or more methods of investigation which are at variance with each other. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Adeimantus further argues that the ideal is wholly at variance with facts; for experience proves philosophers to be either useless or rogues. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• However, though Meyler and I were eternally at variance when together, yet we were ever miserable and jealous whilst separated. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Where preconceived theory was at variance with observed facts, the former must of course give way. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• But we cannot suit; we are ever at variance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Well, and is not this one quality, to mention no others, greatly at variance with present notions of him? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The ideas of humor among the green men of Mars are widely at variance with our conceptions of incitants to merriment. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.

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