Variance n. : The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.

Variance n. : Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.

Variance n. : 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.

Example:
How is Variance analysis applied in a service setting particularly in a school industry?

Taxonomy
variance, random variable, variables, sum, formula, population, sample variance, correlation, subgroups, population variance, expected value, square, uncorrelated, Statistics, yield values, deviations, Weighted sum, algorithm.

Defination from the web:
variance of a random variable, probability distribution, or sample is a measure of statistical ... The unit of variance is the square of the unit of the original variable. ...