An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
VARIANCE
variation, variance
(noun) an activity that varies from a norm or standard; “any variation in his routine was immediately reported”
variance
(noun) an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation); “a zoning variance”
variability, variableness, variance
(noun) the quality of being subject to variation
discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance
(noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; “a growing divergence of opinion”
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
division, variance
(noun) discord that splits a group
discrepancy, variance, variant
(noun) an event that departs from expectations
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
variance (countable and uncountable, plural variances)
The act of varying or the state of being variable.
A difference between what is expected and what is observed; deviation.
The state of differing or being in conflict.
An official permit to do something that is ordinarily forbidden by regulations.
(law) A discrepancy between two legal documents.
(law) A departure from a cause of action originally in a complaint.
(statistics) The second central moment in probability.
(physics, chemistry, biology) The number of degrees of freedom in a system.
(computing, programming) Covariance and contravariance generally.
Source: Wiktionary
Va"ri*ance, n. Etym: [L. variantia.]
1. The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.
2. Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel. That which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance. Shak.
3. (Law)
Definition: A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, -- as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof. Bouvier. A variance, in disagreement; in a state of dissension or controversy; at enmity. "What cause brought him so soon at variance with himself" Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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