margin vs variance

variance vs margin

margin and variance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
margin	Yes	No	No	No
variance	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, variance is a hypernym of margin; that is, variance is a word with a broader meaning than margin:

margin: a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
variance: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

Other hypernyms of margin include disagreement, discrepancy, divergence.

margin (noun)	variance (noun)
an amount beyond the minimum necessary	an activity that varies from a norm or standard
a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits	an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation)
the blank space that surrounds the text on a page	a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities	the quality of being subject to variation
(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold	the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value
the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary	discord that splits a group
	an event that departs from expectations

Difference between margin and variance

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