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adjective

tending to change or alter; exhibiting variety or diversity; varying: variant shades of color.

not agreeing or conforming; differing, especially from something of the same general kind.

not definitive, as a version of part of a text; different; alternative: a variant reading.

not universally accepted.

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noun

a person or thing that varies.

a different spelling, pronunciation, or form of the same word: “Vehemency” is a variant of “vehemence.”

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Origin:
1325–75; Middle English < Latin variant-, stem of variāns, present participle of variāre to vary; see -ant

Related forms

non·var·i·ant, adjective, noun

un·var·i·ant, adjective

Can be confused: variable, variant.

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Including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts.

Only no one value can reach all of these except infinity or a variable variant.

Coesite is a variant of quartz that forms only under intense heat and pressure.

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Including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts.

Only no one value can reach all of these except infinity or a variable variant.

Coesite is a variant of quartz that forms only under intense heat and pressure.

For parents of gender variant children, the decisions they face have lifelong and sometimes.

Small breeds share a gene variant that limits their growth.

Individuals who inherit a particular gene variant that tweaks the brain's.

Researchers have made progress in understanding how a variant gene linked to schizophrenia may exert its influence in the brain.

The bites were itchy as all get-out, but benadryl and the clear variant of calamine lotion helped me a lot.

To do this right, organizations often need to do some variant of ethnographic research.

Likewise, those with the variant gene who grew up in non-violent homes were not more prone to violence.

In the counseling group, however, there was no difference between teens with the variant and without.

The scientists who created a synthetic variant are in debt to nature, time and billions of years of evolution.

Two people with the same genetic variant can and do have different triggers that shape differential expressions as phenotype.

Seven state legislatures have now voted to allow gay marriage or some watered-down variant of it.

Because patients with a particular genetic variant might not respond well to that drug.

Get a look at the first five pages, plus some undressed variant cover art, in the gallery above.

But far less is known about the variant form of the disease, including how much is an infective dose for humans.

Most of these prediction sites use some variant of the following idea.

In a variant of this argument, some of them appeal for a closer union restricted to an inner core of members.

Specifically, the team worked with saliva from the sand fly that carries a skin-lesion-causing variant of the parasite.

In recent years, the magazine put its own spin on the comic book practice of publishing variant covers.

The spelling variant that has gained in usage so much that it has lost its kinkiness is luv.

It must have been a variant of the same urban legend.

Many university lecturers plump for a variant of the teachers' private-lesson ploy.

Fried and his colleagues perfected a variant of epilepsy monitoring in which the electrodes are hollowed out.

These proved not to matter much, with each common variant linking to miniscule fractions of disease risk.

Flat is a variant of thin, which is a variant of small.

Men with a particular variant of the gene scored lower than others on the bonding scale, and fewer of them were married.

While these individual figures will be available elsewhere, the variant card backs will be hard to find in the wild.

At the time, they said that as many as one in five people had the variant gene.

Hypnosis appears to be a normal variant of awakeness.

Black and white rectangles show that a person inherited the same sequence variant from both parents.

Apparently there was a drought and larger-beaked finches were the dominant variant.

Before you answer yes, please understand that this is a variant of the halting problem.

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World English Dictionary

variant (ˈvɛərɪənt)

—*adj*
1.	liable to or displaying variation
2.	differing from a standard or type: a variant spelling
3.	obsolete not constant; fickle

—n
4.	something that differs from a standard or type
5.	statistics another word for variate

[C14: via Old French from Latin variāns, from variāre to diversify, from variusvarious]

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Word Origin & History

variant

c.1380, from O.Fr. variant, from L. variantem (nom. varians), prp. of variare "to change" (see vary). The noun is first attested 1848.

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Medical Dictionary

variant var·i·ant (vâr'ē-ənt, vār'-)
adj.

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

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

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