Term: variance: an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation)
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: society: the fashionable elite
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: lighting fixture: a fixture providing artificial light
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: wild card: a playing card whose value can be determined by the person who holds it
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: kike: (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: snorkeling: skin diving with a snorkel
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: tlingit: a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: objection: (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: fertilization membrane: the membrane that forms around a fertilized ovum and prevents penetration by additional spermatozoon
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: amphibia: the class of vertebrates that live on land but breed in water; frogs; toads; newts; salamanders; caecilians
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: myometrium: the smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus