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variant
[ vair-ee-uhnt ]
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.
noun
- a person or thing that varies.
- a different spelling, pronunciation, or form of the same word:
“Vehemency†is a variant of “vehemence.â€
- Microbiology, Pathology. a form of a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism that arises from a strain of the microorganism when a mutation changes a small part of the strain’s genetic code. Compare strain 2( def 5 ).
variant
/ ˈ±¹É›É™°ùɪə²Ô³Ù /
adjective
- liable to or displaying variation
- differing from a standard or type
a variant spelling
- obsolete.not constant; fickle
noun
- something that differs from a standard or type
- statistics another word for variate
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²Ô´Ç²Ô·±¹²¹°ù·¾±Â·²¹²Ô³Ù adjective noun
- ³Ü²Ô·±¹²¹°ù·¾±Â·²¹²Ô³Ù adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of variant1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of variant1
Example Sentences
The southern provinces of Syria, which run along the frontier with Israel, are home to many of Syria's Druze – Arabs who practice a variant of Shia Islam – whose community stretches across Syria, Israel and Lebanon.
Unfortunately, the vaccines were still months away and new variants were springing up so he resorted to his usual tactics of pitting people against each other.
More than 100 renderings by artists as grand as David Hockney delivered fugue variants in form and material.
The new villain in “Doomsday†is believed to be a variant of Stark, according to reports.
First detected in central Africa, this variant of the virus appears to transmit more easily between people.
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