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variant

adj
/ˈvɛəɹi.ənt/UK/ˈvæɹi.ənt/US

Etymology

From Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”). First attested in c. 1380.

  1. derived from variāns
  2. derived from variant

Definitions

  1. Showing variety, diverse.

  2. Showing deviation or disagreement.

  3. Variable.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Covariant and/or contravariant.

    2. Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.

      • All breeds of dog are variants of the species “Canis lupus familiaris”.

    3. A different sequence of a gene (locus).

      • Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID.

    4. A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.

    5. One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves…

      One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.

      • The word "kerosine" is a variant of “kerosene”.
      • The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants.
      • Each member of this group of two or more forms is called a variant. [...] In this case ‘-in’ and ‘-ing’ are variants of the sociolinguistic variable -ing.

The neighborhood

Derived

time-variant, Alpha variant, Beta variant, biovariant, bivariant, copy-number variant, delta variant, epivariant, Epsilon variant, equivariant, Eta variant, Gamma variant, genovariant, glycovariant, heterovariant, immunovariant, invariant, Iota variant, isovariant, Kappa variant, Kraken variant, Lambda variant, metavariant, microvariant, monovariant, multivariant, Mu variant, neurovariant, nonvariant, Omega variant, Omicron variant, pathovariant, pharmacovariant, polyvariant, scariant, serovariant, splice variant, subvariant, Theta variant, univariant · +4 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at variant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at variant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at variant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA