variation

variation is a 9-letter English word with 16 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.
2. noun. Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change.
3. noun. Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc.
4. noun. Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the essential features of the original shall still preserve their identity.
5. noun. One of the different arrangements which can be made of any number of quantities taking a certain number of them together.
6. noun. an activity that varies from a norm or standard

   "any variation in his routine was immediately reported"

   Synonyms: variance

7. noun. the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard

   "who is responsible for these variations in taxation?"

8. noun. (ballet) a solo dance or dance figure
9. noun. an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard

   "he patented a variation on the sandal"

10. noun. something a little different from others of the same type

    "an experimental version of the night fighter"

    "a variant of the same word"

    Synonyms: edition, variant, version

11. noun. a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
12. noun. an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change

    Synonyms: fluctuation

13. noun. (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

    Synonyms: mutant, mutation, sport

14. noun. (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
15. noun. the process of varying or being varied
16. noun. the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north

Synonyms

variance, edition, variant, version, fluctuation, mutant, mutation, sport

Common word forms

variations, variational

Words from these letters

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