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variant


adjective

  1. tending to change or alter; exhibiting variety or diversity; varying: variant shades of color.
  2. not agreeing or conforming; differing, especially from something of the same general kind.
  3. not definitive, as a version of part of a text; different; alternative: a variant reading.
  4. not universally accepted.

noun

  1. a person or thing that varies.
  2. a different spelling, pronunciation, or form of the same word: “Vehemency” is a variant of “vehemence.”

adjective

  1. liable to or displaying variation
  2. differing from a standard or typea variant spelling
  3. obsolete not constant; fickle

noun

  1. something that differs from a standard or type
  2. statistics another word for variate (def. 1)
adj.

late 14c., from Old French variant, from Latin variantem (nominative varians), present participle of variare “to change” (see vary).

n.

1848, from variant (adj.).

adj.

  1. Having or exhibiting variation; differing.
  2. Tending or liable to vary; variable.
  3. Deviating from a standard, usually by only a slight difference.

n.

  1. Something that differs in form only slightly from something else.
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