Variance vs Opposition - What's the difference?
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The act of varying or the state of being variable
A difference between what is expected and what happens
The state of differing or being in conflict
A discrepancy, especially between two legal documents
(senseid)(statistics) The second central moment in probability
(computing, programming) covariance and contravariance generally
The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
An opposite or contrasting position.
An opponent in some form of competition.
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, title= (astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.
(senseid)(politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
(legal) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent.
(chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.
Variance is a related term of opposition.
As nouns the difference between variance and opposition
is that variance is the act of varying or the state of being variable while opposition is the opposition, political opposition; opposition party.variance
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Alternative forms
* variaunce * varNoun
(wikipedia variance) (en noun)opposition
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(en noun)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition .}}