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  Var

  noun

  a department in SE France. 2,326 sq. mi. (6,025 sq. km). Draguignan.
• VAR
  VAR

  noun

  video assistant referee: a system by which a group of officials in a control booth use multiple angles of video footage to review decisions made by officials on the field in real time.
• var.
  var.

  abbreviation

  variable.
• var
  var

  noun

  a unit of reactive power of an alternating current, equal to the product of the current measured in amperes and the voltage measured in volts

Var

¹ American  

[var] / var /

noun

1. a department in SE France. 2,326 sq. mi. (6,025 sq. km). Draguignan.

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VAR ² American  

noun

Soccer.

1. video assistant referee: a system by which a group of officials in a control booth use multiple angles of video footage to review decisions made by officials on the field in real time.

   The guiding principle of VAR in this league is that it should interfere as little as possible.

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var. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. variable.

2. variant.

3. variation.

4. variety.

5. variometer.

6. various.

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var. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. variable

2. variant

3. variation

4. variety

5. various

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Var ² British  

/ var /

noun

1. a department of SE France, in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region. Capital: Toulon. Pop: 946 305 (2003 est). Area: 6023 sq km (2349 sq miles)

2. a river in SE France, flowing southeast and south to the Mediterranean near Nice. Length: about 130 km (80 miles)

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VAR ³ British  

abbreviation

1. visual aural range

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var ⁴ British  

/ vɑː /

noun

1. a unit of reactive power of an alternating current, equal to the product of the current measured in amperes and the voltage measured in volts

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Etymology

Origin of VAR

First recorded in 2010–15

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Example Sentences

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Var Energi announced a deal in July to buy Oslo-listed peer BlueNord in a cash and stock deal valued at around $1.3 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

In the southeastern region of Var, however, more than 600 people were forced to flee after a fresh fire erupted in the region nestled along France's Mediterranean coast between the cities of Marseille and Nice.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Meanwhile, Aude and Var have its second highest alert level.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

In the Var region in south-east France, evacuated residents were told they could go home to assess potential damage to properties on Thursday morning.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Var looked grimly at the Watcher, and would have spoken; but the Watcher seemed suddenly a very long way off, and Var could no longer feel his own limbs, his face was a numb mask.

From When the Mountain Shook by Robert Abernathy

England's progress has been closely monitored by Uefa, which has moved him through the levels as a VAR.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

In a lapse of concentration, and despite the VAR image showing Diaz was onside, England said "check complete".

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

All that focus has paid off, with England the VAR for a decision which was dubbed the 'biggest VAR call ever' as West Ham had a stoppage-time equaliser against Arsenal disallowed on review in May.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The biggest change has been the introduction of VAR, which had only been in the Premier League for a few months when England refereed Southampton v Wolves in January 2020.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Nothing is picked up on-field but the VAR, Tony Harrington, identifies a tug on the shirt and sends the referee to the monitor to give a penalty.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

An example of this system is Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum ‘Burgundy’ — known commonly as the fringe flower or the razzle-dazzle plant.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

While most of small Solomon’s seal is doing just fine in the wild, one of its varieties, Polygonatum biflorum var. melleum, is presumed extinct.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2020

A variegated example, the striped and stately Miscanthus sinensis var. condensatus ‘Cosmopolitan’ boasts arching, cream-and-green foliage that reaches upward of 7 feet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2018

They belong to Ae. tauschii ssp. tauschii var. meyeri.

From Nature ● Nov. 14, 2017

Bigelòvii, Tuckerm., has fertile stems 5–7´ high, its leaves more awl-shaped and pointed, sparser and more upright, often somewhat teeth-bearing.—Sandy bogs, northward, not common; the var., eastern New Eng. to N. J., and southward.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Our setup was actually designed to act in time of general var like a chicken with its head cut off.

From Time Magazine Archive

No one relishes the risks involved in the var ious options available to the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cuts include some $8.8 billion in education funds, $13.8 billion in var ious welfare programs, $7.7 billion in energy projects and $1.8 billion in transportation supports.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its essential part is a coil of heavy wire that can take var ious shapes, including a cylinder, a doughnut or a flat disk.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the above Sansc. var, to moisten, to water, is contained, as I take it, the root of the Finnic wirta, a river, the only appellative I can find for the following.

From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson

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