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Variant

noun

1.

An event that departs from expectations. Synonyms: discrepancy, variance.

2.

(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups. Synonyms: form, strain, var..

3.

A variable quantity that is random. Synonyms: chance variable, random variable, stochastic variable, variate.

4.

Something a little different from others of the same type. Synonyms: edition, variation, version. "A variant of the same word" , "An emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone" , "The boy is a younger edition of his father"

adjective

1.

Differing from a norm or standard.

2.

Exhibiting variation and change.

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"Variant" Quotes from Famous Books

... greyness of the masonry. Mural decoration in his eyes is not merely a picture let into a wall, nor is it necessarily mural decoration even if it be painted on the wall itself: it is mural decoration if it form part of the wall, if it be, if I may so express myself, a variant of the stonework. No other painter ever kept this end so strictly before his eyes. For this end Chavannes reduced his palette almost to a monochrome, for this end he models in two flat tints, for this end he draws ...

— Modern Painting • George Moore

... a maister or rather a mistresse in that practise and facultie.'[629] The Paris Coven confessed that they 'distilled' the entrails of the sacrificed child after Guibourg had celebrated the mass for Madame de Montespan, the method being probably the same as that described by Scot. A variant occurs in both France and Scotland, and is interesting as throwing light on the reasons for some of the savage rites of the witches: 'Pour ne confesser iamais le secret de l'escole, on faict au sabbat vne paste ...

— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray

... the history of the white race. The great heart of humanity will ever ache with sympathy for the melancholy and pitiful end of the natives, who at the time of the conquest of Mexico were confidently expecting the return of the mild and gentle Quetzalcoatl,—the Mexican variant of this universal myth. * * * The Golden Hearted came from an island in the East, and to this he returned, in the legend. In all variants, he gave a distinct promise of return. This accounts for the awe inspired by Europeans ...

— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... (the abscissa) is measured one of the conditions (or agents) with which the inquiry is concerned, called the Variable; and along perpendiculars (ordinates) is measured some phenomenon to be compared with it, called the Variant. ...

— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read

... best interests were bound up with those of a certain variant, changing person, whose label, in order that his past might always be identified with him, was Amory Blaine. Amory marked himself a fortunate youth, capable of infinite expansion for good or evil. He did not consider himself a ...

— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald

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