Variance
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of varying or the state of being variable A difference between what is expected and what happens The state of differing or being in conflict A discrepancy, especially between two legal documents The second central moment in probability
Example sentence: CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.
Division
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act or process of dividing anything.Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.(uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.A calculation that involves this process.A military formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.A section of a large company.A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rankA disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
Example sentence: Speed is something that, in the heavyweight division, we don't have a lot of.