variation
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noun- 1.
(uncountable, usually)The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
- 2.
(uncountable, usually)A related but distinct thing.
When the process didn't work, we tried a variation.
All of his soups are variations on a single recipe.
- 3.
(uncountable, usually)(nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north.
Đồng nghĩa: magnetic declination
- 4.
(uncountable, usually)(board games) A line of play that differs from the original.
- 5.
(uncountable, usually)(music) A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, counterpoint or orchestration; but with some invariant characteristic, e.g. a ground bass.
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(uncountable, usually)(genetics) The modification of a hereditary trait.
- 7.
(uncountable, usually)(astronomy) Deviation from the mean orbit of a heavenly body.
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(uncountable, usually)(linguistics) The situation where two or more linguistic forms appear in the same environment without a change in meaning, the choice of form being determined by factors of dialect, sociolect, register or simply the speaker's preference.
- 9.
(uncountable, usually)(mathematics, variational calculus) An infinitesimal perturbation applied to a function, typically denoted δf, used to probe how a functional changes.
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(uncountable, usually)(mathematics, variational calculus) The corresponding first-order change in a functional induced by such a perturbation, typically denoted δJ[f] and called the first variation.
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From frm variation, from fro variacion, from la variātiō, from vary + -ation.