variation.
The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
Meaning & usage
The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
A related but distinct thing.
When the process didn't work, we tried a variation.
All of his soups are variations on a single recipe.
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.
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 preference.
An infinitesimal perturbation applied to a function, typically denoted δf, used to probe how a functional changes.
The corresponding first-order change in a functional induced by such a perturbation, typically denoted δJ[f] and called the first variation.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French variation, from Old French variacion, from Latin variātiō, from vary + -ation.
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