TIA's Glossary of Telecommunication Terms
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Allan variance
One half of the time average over the sum of the squares of the differences between successive readings of the frequency deviation sampled over the sampling period. Note: The Allan variance is conventionally expressed by 
y2(
) . The samples are taken with no dead-time between them. Synonym two-sample variance.