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Valuation
Variation (design)

a design that shares the same purpose and dominant distinctive characteristics as the main design.

Volatility

A statistical measure of the dispersion of returns for a given security or market index. Volatility can either be measured by using the standard deviation or variance between returns from that same security or market index. Commonly, the higher the volatility, the riskier the security.