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standard deviation

stan·dard de·vi·a·tion (plural stan·dard de·vi·a·tions)


noun 
Definition:
 
statistical measure of dispersion: a statistical measure of the amount by which a set of values differs from the arithmetical mean, equal to the square root of the mean of the differences' squares

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