Technical term in computing and statistics for the degree of spread or dispersion of data. The glosses 'irrelevance' and 'prevarication' are likely erroneous or extremely rare; the primary meaning is 'spread'.
Spread is an indicator that shows the dispersion of data.
This algorithm detects outliers by calculating the spread.
Compound of 散布 (さんぷ, 'scatter, spread') and 度 (ど, 'degree'). The term is a technical coinage for 'degree of spread'.