Variation

What do we mean by variation?

The act, fact, or process of varying. noun

The extent or degree to which something varies. noun

Something different from another of the same type: synonym: difference. noun

Magnetic declination. noun

The existence within a species or other group of organisms of differences in form, function, or behavior, especially when hereditary. noun

A function that relates the values of one variable to those of other variables. noun

A form that is an altered version of a given theme, diverging from it by melodic ornamentation and by changes in harmony, rhythm, or key. noun

One of a series of forms based on a single theme. noun

A solo dance, especially one forming part of a larger work. noun

The difference of offspring from the parent. noun

Statistical or formal abnormality in living beings, or the departure of individual organisms from the mean, average, or rule for the race, considered as a fixed standard or logical species which individual animals approach or from which they recede. noun

A change in a living being which is dne to its own activity as an individual, as contrasted with a change which is inherited. See the extract. noun

A congenital or germinal change in a living being, which is not due to its own activity and is transmitted to descendants, as contrasted with a change which comes about in it by its own activity and is not transmitted to descendants. noun

A change that may take place in an individual or a variety or species when its habitat changes. noun

The amount of change which a quantity suffers in an hour: as, the hourly variation of the sun's declination. noun

Variation which arises during the larval and later stages of development, as contrasted with variation which arises during the early embryonic stages. noun

The act or process of varying; partial change in form, position, state, or qualities; alteration; mutation; diversity; variance; modification: as, variations of color; the slow variation of language. noun

The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.

A related but distinct thing.

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

A line of play that differs from the original.

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 bass.

The modification of a hereditary trait.

Deviation from the mean orbit of a heavenly body.

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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word variation:
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Words that rhyme with variation:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe variation:
considerable, wide, great, genetic, seasonal, little, individual, slight, diurnal, much, significant, regional, spatial, greater, total, random, normal, annual, substantial, temporal, continuous, less, cultural, interesting, marked, systematic, possible, daily, geographic, observed, antigenic, geographical, linguistic, phenotypic, extreme, greatest, environmental, secular, morphological, linear, negative, periodic, maximum, magnetic, minor, corresponding, biological, circadian, enormous, stylistic, tremendous, mean, quantitative, structural, intraspecific, climatic, cyclic, typical, rapid, interindividual, sinusoidal, infinite, slightest, vertical, concomitant, somaclonal, cyclical, statistical, contingent, least.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective variation:
method, form, hypothesis, model, selection, series, retention, explanation, observations, effects, type, problem, technique, survival, runs, hypotheses, version, principle, gain, clause, analysis, theory, approach, pattern, procedure, process, interval, criterion, effect, structure, experiments, forms, kind, research, factor, egalitarianism, movements, changes, mechanism, condition, diminishing, doctrine, phenomenon, differences, diagram, tolerance, bias.

Consonant match to variation:
vari ation.

Words that sound like variation:
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