Synonyms

1. variance

Sentence Examples

1. In one instance, on a line arbitrarily chosen, the depth did not vary more than one foot in thirty rods and generally, near the middle, I could calculate the variation for each one hundred feet in any direction beforehand within three or four inches.
2. Any variation, any deviation, from this narrow brand of divine will, they deemed a sin.
3. He notes every variation of face as the play progresses, gathering a fund of thought from the differences in the expression of certainty, of surprise, of triumph, or of chagrin.
4. In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are unique and have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, and the mere attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen.
5. When on a perfect level, it remained for a single moment, without tremor or variation, as though both man and rifle were carved in stone.
6. Indeed, there is no other way of accounting for the variation in question.
7. Now here, I at once saw, was a telescope to be used, and a definite point of view, admitting no variation, from which to use it.
8. Their grandmother sat at the piano in the other room and played an old tune Iszak recognized as a variation on his own song.
9. For, in respect to the latter branch of the supposition, it should be considered that the most trifling variation in the facts of the two cases might give rise to the most important miscalculations, by diverting thoroughly the two courses of events very much as, in arithmetic, an error which, in its own individuality, may be inappreciable, produces, at length, by dint of multiplication at all points of the process, a result enormously at variance with truth.
10. Prometheus offered an encouraging nod, and so Pandora knelt beside one, memorising every subtle variation in its colours.