Covariance and contravariance

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Covariance and contravariance may refer to:

• Covariance and contravariance of vectors, in mathematics and theoretical physics
• Covariance and contravariance of functors, in category theory
• Covariance and contravariance (computer science), whether a type system preserves the ordering ≤ of types
• An informal synonym for invariance (physics)

• Covariance, in probability theory and statistics, the measure of how much two random variables vary together
• Covariance (disambiguation)

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