variation
/ˌvɛəɹɪˈeɪʃn̩/
The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; A related but distinct thing
- plural
- variations
Meanings
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The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing
There is relatively little variation in temperature here.
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A related but distinct thing
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The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic northrare
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A line of play that differs from the originalrare
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A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, counterpoint or orchestration; but with some invariant characteristic, e.g. a ground bassrare
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The modification of a hereditary traitrare
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Deviation from the mean orbit of a heavenly bodyrare
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The situation where two or more linguistic forms appear in the same environment without a change in meaning, the choice of form being determined by factors of dialect, sociolect, register or simply the speaker's preferencerare
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An infinitesimal perturbation applied to a function, typically denoted δf, used to probe how a functional changesrare
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The corresponding first-order change in a functional induced by such a perturbation, typically denoted δJ[f] and called the first variationrare