VARIANCE in a Sentence
Learn VARIANCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
14 example sentences for VARIANCE, such as:
1. We shall refer to this as the minimum variance criterion.
2. Tradition and culture are often at variance with the needs of modern living.
3. The developer requested a variance to build a shopping center on the east side of town.
4. Young people's reactions to world events are often at variance with those of their parents.
5. It is a point difficult to fix where the features and countenance are so much at variance as in your case.
2. Tradition and culture are often at variance with the needs of modern living.
3. The developer requested a variance to build a shopping center on the east side of town.
4. Young people's reactions to world events are often at variance with those of their parents.
5. It is a point difficult to fix where the features and countenance are so much at variance as in your case.
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Meanings and Examples of VARIANCE
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variance
n. discord that splits a group
n. the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value
Classic Sentence:
1 The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
2 And as she looked into Scarlett's stormy green eyes, her slight shoulders straightened and a mantle of dignity, strangely at variance with her childish face and figure, fell upon her.
3 He was in an intermediate state between sleeping and waking; at variance with himself, with his company, with the country, and with the government.
4 It is a point difficult to fix where the features and countenance are so much at variance as in your case.
5 In a worldly view, he had nothing to gain by being on terms with Sir Walter; nothing to risk by a state of variance.
6 It was a text which might seem to the casual observer at variance with the lofty morality elsewhere preached by Jesus Christ.
7 The district-attorney's persistence was visibly at variance with the sentiments of every one, of the public, of the court, and of the jury.
Example Sentence:
1 The developer requested a variance to build a shopping center on the east side of town.
2 Tradition and culture are often at variance with the needs of modern living.
3 Survey data indicate no variance in church attendance between blue- and white-collar workers.
4 Young people's reactions to world events are often at variance with those of their parents.
5 We shall refer to this as the minimum variance criterion.
6 The variance and the closely-related standard deviation are measures of how spread out a distribution is; in other words, they are measures of variability.
7 More than half the variance between people in intelligence is also genetic, Mr. Shane reports, adding that smarter people "tend to be less satisfied with their jobs."