FromMiddle Frenchvariation, fromOld Frenchvariacion, fromLatinvariātiō, fromvary +-ation.
variation (usuallyuncountable,pluralvariations)
- The act ofvarying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
2013 May-June,David Van Tassel,Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, inAmerican Scientist, volume101, number 3:Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in geneticvariation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
- Arelated butdistinct thing.
When the process didn't work, we tried avariation.
All of his soups arevariations on a single recipe.
2020 May 10, “Cultivation Experience of a Young Practitioner Born in the 90s”, inMinghui[1]:Selfishness has differentvariations, but in the end it is all the same.
- (nautical) Theangulardifference at thevessel between thedirection oftrue north andmagnetic north.
- Synonym:magnetic declination
- (board games) A line of play that differs from the original.
- (music) Atechnique wherematerial is repeated withalterations to themelody,harmony,rhythm,timbre,texture,counterpoint ororchestration; but with some invariant characteristic, e.g. aground bass.
- (genetics) The modification of a hereditary trait.
- (astronomy)Deviation from themeanorbit of aheavenly body.
- (linguistics) 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 ofdialect,sociolect,register or simply the speaker's preference.
the act or state of varying
- Armenian:please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian:промяна (bg) f(promjana),изменение (bg) n(izmenenie)
- Catalan:variació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:變化 /变化 (zh)(biànhuà),變動 /变动 (zh)(biàndòng)
- Czech:variace f
- Danish:variation c
- Dutch:afwisseling (nl) f,variatie (nl) f,verandering (nl) f
- Esperanto:diverseco,ŝanĝo
- Finnish:muuntelu (fi),vaihtelu (fi)
- French:variation (fr) f
- Galician:variación (gl) f
- Georgian:ვარიაცია(variacia),სახესხვაობა(saxesxvaoba)
- German:Veränderung (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient:παράλλαγμα n(parállagma)
- Irish:athruithe,éagsúlacht f
- Italian:variazione (it)
- Japanese:変動 (ja)(へんどう, hendō),変化 (ja)(へんか, henka)
- Khmer:បំរែបំរួល(bɑmrɛɛbɑmruəl)
- Korean:변화(變化) (ko)(byeonhwa)
- Latin:variātio
- Malay:kesenjangan (ms)
- Malayalam:വ്യതിയാനം (ml)(vyatiyānaṁ)
- Maori:tāupetanga
- Mongolian:please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:variasjon (no) m
- Nynorsk:variasjon m
- Polish:zmienność (pl) f
- Portuguese:variação (pt) f
- Romanian:variație (ro) f,variere f
- Russian:измене́ние (ru) n(izmenénije),варьи́рование (ru) n(varʹírovanije)
- Scottish Gaelic:mùthadh m,atharrachadh m,caochladh m
- Spanish:variación (es) f
- Swedish:variation (sv) c
- Tagalog:kaibahan,baryasyon
- Thai:please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese:sựbiến đổi,sựthay đổi
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related but distinct thing
difference between true and magnetic (compass) north
(board games) a line of play that differs from the original
a musical technique based on an altered repetition of a theme
appearance of two or more linguistic forms
Translations to be checked
- US FM 55-501MARINE CREWMAN’S HANDBOOK; 1 December 1999
- “variation”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “variation”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
ViaFrenchvariation, fromLatinvariātiō.
variation c (singular definitevariationen,plural indefinitevariationer)
- variation
- Synonym:afveksling
Learned borrowing fromLatinvariātiō. Bysurface analysis,varier +-ation. See alsovéraison.
variation f (pluralvariations)
- variation
- (music)variation(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 bass)
- Coordinate term:thème
FromFrenchvariation, attested from 1656.[1]
variation c
- variation
