Definitions
1.NounThe act of varying or the state of being variable.
2.NounA difference between what is expected and what is observed; deviation.
3.NounThe state of differing or being in conflict.
4.NounAn official permit to do something that is ordinarily forbidden by regulations.
5.NounA discrepancy between two legal documents.
6.NounA departure from a cause of action originally in a complaint.
7.NounThe second central moment in probability; the square of the standard deviation.
8.NounThe number of degrees of freedom in a system.
9.NounCovariance and contravariance generally."Depending on the variance of the type constructor, the subtyping relation of the simple types may be either preserved, reversed, or ignored for the respective complex types."