дисперсия — meaning in English
dispersiya
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English meaning
- dispersion noun The act of scattering things widely, or the state of being spread out over a large area.
- variance noun A difference between what was expected and what actually happened.
Senses
дисперсия is used for these senses in English:
- dispersion (optics) The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.
- variance (statistics) The second central moment in probability.
dispersion — full definition
- noun The act of scattering things widely, or the state of being spread out over a large area.
- noun In statistics, the extent to which values in a data set are spread out around their average, measured by quantities such as range, variance and standard deviation.
- noun In physics, the splitting of light or another wave into its component wavelengths, because each travels at a slightly different speed in the medium.
variance — full definition
- noun A difference between what was expected and what actually happened.
- noun The state of disagreeing or being in conflict.
- noun Official permission to do something that would normally break a rule or regulation.
- noun In statistics, a measure of how spread out a set of values is, calculated as the square of the standard deviation.