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"ref": "1973, United States Army Aviation Digest - Volume 19, page 18",
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"ref": "2004, F. L. Harrison, Dennis Lock, Advanced Project Management: A Structured Approach, page 212",
"text": "This remains an important tool and relies on simple subtraction to evaluate the difference ( variance ) between a planned result and an actual measurement.",
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"ref": "2012, Penny Howard, Becky Whittaker (nee Chady), Karen Holland, Placement Learning in Cancer & Palliative Care Nursing, page 160",
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"text": "Depending on the variance of the type constructor, the subtyping relation of the simple types may be either preserved, reversed, or ignored for the respective complex types."
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1b/FR-variance.ogg/FR-variance.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/FR-variance.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
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}
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.