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variant
[ vair-ee-uhnt ]
adjective
- tending to change or alter; exhibiting variety or diversity; varying:
variant shades of color.
- not agreeing or conforming; differing, especially from something of the same general kind.
- not definitive, as a version of part of a text; different; alternative:
a variant reading.
- not universally accepted.
noun
- a person or thing that varies.
- a different spelling, pronunciation, or form of the same word:
“Vehemency” is a variant of “vehemence.”
- Microbiology, Pathology. a form of a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism that arises from a strain of the microorganism when a mutation changes a small part of the strain’s genetic code. Compare strain 2( def 5 ).
variant
/ ˈvɛərɪənt /
adjective
- liable to or displaying variation
- differing from a standard or type
a variant spelling
- obsolete.not constant; fickle
noun
- something that differs from a standard or type
- statistics another word for variate
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Other Words From
- non·var·i·ant adjective noun
- un·var·i·ant adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of variant1
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Example Sentences
There we were to watch a game of buzkashi, a much more violent variant of polo played by Uzbeks and other Afghans.
All of these will end with some variant of the following: Ms. Pembreteaux laughed, then shrugged.
Many of the gender-variant male types were stigmatized; being regarded as women was hardly an elevation in social status.
Instead, Chris indulged in the MSNBC variant of epistemic closure.
Now she is back with a new variant today, but this one actually makes more sense.
On the other hand, no continental variant appears to contain the sea-maiden episodes.
I do not think that Lancelot was ab origine the hero of a variant of this popular and widely-spread folk-tale.
Minor printer's errors have been corrected, but variant and irregular spellings are retained.
He indicated one of the variant-tapes being slowly reversed across the relays.
Where several variant spellings were used, the most prevalent version was use to standardize them.
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