variation
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
variation/veəriˈeɪʃn/
▶noun
- 1 a change or slight difference in condition, amount, or level.
■ (also magnetic variation) the angular difference between true north and magnetic north at a particular place.
- 2 a different or distinct form or version.
■ Music a new but still recognizable version of a theme.
■ Ballet a solo dance as part of a performance.
– derivatives
variational adjective.
variational adjective.
'variation' also found in these Oxford entries:
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- beat
- Boston
- changeable
- coin
- compensation pendulum
- conjugation
- covariation
- declension
- delta
- delta-v
- evection
- even
- flutter
- frequency modulation
- genetics
- independent variable
- jitter
- melanism
- monomorphic
- nutation
- phase
- plethysmograph
- polygenic
- probabilistic
- Procrustean
- range
- retail price index
- ripple
- roundel
- shading
- significance
- sliding scale
- sport
- tolerance
- transient
- trough
- unchangeable
- unrelieved
- varied
- vibrato
- wave
- wind shear
