variation

Variation

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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Variation

A related but distinct thing

Variation

The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic northselten

Variation

A line of play that differs from the originalselten

Variation

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 bassselten

Variation

The modification of a hereditary traitselten

Variation

Deviation from the mean orbit of a heavenly bodyselten

Variation

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 preferenceselten

Variation

An infinitesimal perturbation applied to a function, typically denoted δf, used to probe how a functional changesselten

Variation

The corresponding first-order change in a functional induced by such a perturbation, typically denoted δJ[f] and called the first variationselten