Variation ¹

Definition: The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.

Variation ²

Definition: Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change.

Variation ³

Definition: Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc.

Variation ⁴

Definition: Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the essential features of the original shall still preserve their identity.

Variation ⁵

Definition: One of the different arrangements which can be made of any number of quantities taking a certain number of them together.

variation ⁶

Definition: an activity that varies from a norm or standard; "any variation in his routine was immediately reported"

variation ⁷

Definition: the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard; "who is responsible for these variations in taxation?"

variation ⁸

Definition: (ballet) a solo dance or dance figure

variation ⁹

Definition: an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard; "he patented a variation on the sandal"

variation ¹⁰

Definition: something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "an emery wheel is a modern variant of the grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father"

variation ¹¹

Definition: a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished

variation ¹²

Definition: an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change

variation ¹³

Definition: (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

variation ¹⁴

Definition: (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth''s moon)

variation ¹⁵

Definition: the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north