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variant

[ vair-ee-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. tending to change or alter; exhibiting variety or diversity; varying:

    variant shades of color.

  2. not agreeing or conforming; differing, especially from something of the same general kind.
  3. not definitive, as a version of part of a text; different; alternative:

    a variant reading.

  4. not universally accepted.


noun

  1. a person or thing that varies.
  2. a different spelling, pronunciation, or form of the same word:

    “Vehemency†is a variant of “vehemence.â€

  3. 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

  1. liable to or displaying variation
  2. differing from a standard or type

    a variant spelling

  3. obsolete.
    not constant; fickle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. something that differs from a standard or type
  2. statistics another word for variate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²Ô´Ç²Ô·±¹²¹°ù·¾±Â·²¹²Ô³Ù adjective noun
  • ³Ü²Ô·±¹²¹°ù·¾±Â·²¹²Ô³Ù adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of variant1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English variaunt(e), variant(e) “undergoing change, tending to change, changeable,†from Old French, from Latin variant-, stem of ±¹²¹°ù¾±Äå²Ô²õ, present participle of ±¹²¹°ù¾±Äå°ù±ð “to mark or adorn with different colorsâ€; various; -ant
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of variant1

C14: via Old French from Latin ±¹²¹°ù¾±Äå²Ô²õ, from ±¹²¹°ù¾±Äå°ù±ð to diversify, from varius various
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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.

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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.

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More than 100 renderings by artists as grand as David Hockney delivered fugue variants in form and material.

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The new villain in “Doomsday†is believed to be a variant of Stark, according to reports.

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First detected in central Africa, this variant of the virus appears to transmit more easily between people.

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