Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change.
- 3noun
Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
One of the different arrangements which can be made of any number of quantities taking a certain number of them together.
- 6noun
an activity that varies from a norm or standard
"any variation in his routine was immediately reported"
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- 7noun
the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard
"who is responsible for these variations in taxation?"
- 8noun
(ballet) a solo dance or dance figure
- 9noun
an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard
"he patented a variation on the sandal"
- 10noun
something a little different from others of the same type
"an experimental version of the night fighter"
"a variant of the same word"
- 11noun
a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
- 12noun
an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
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- 13noun
(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- 14noun
(astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
- 15noun
the process of varying or being varied
- 16noun
the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north
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