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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

  1. noun The act of scattering things widely, or the state of being spread out over a large area.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

  1. noun A difference between what was expected and what actually happened.
  2. noun The state of disagreeing or being in conflict.
  3. noun Official permission to do something that would normally break a rule or regulation.
  4. noun In statistics, a measure of how spread out a set of values is, calculated as the square of the standard deviation.

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