variation
IPA: vɛriˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
- A related but distinct thing.
- (nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north.
- (board games) A line of play that differs from the original.
- (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.
- (genetics) The modification of a hereditary trait.
- (astronomy) Deviation from the mean orbit of a heavenly body.
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Examples of "variation" in Sentences
- MsgBox The icon was found at \% outX\%x\%outY\% variation = \% variation\%.
- This kind of variation is more in keeping with everything we know about biology and genetic health.
- Collinge J, Sidle KCL, Meads J, et al. Molecular analysis of prion strain variation and the aetiology of ‘new variant’ CJD.
- In any case, the idea that variation is constrained by history is intrinsic to evolution, variations being modifications of what already exists in the line.
- MsgBox The icon was found at \% outX\%x\%outY\% variation = \% variation\%. send, {alt up}; close the calculator window send, {alt down} send, {f4} send, {alt up}
- Behe (and almost nobody else) believes that no list of naturalistic processes can ever fully explain variation: he suspects that some supernatural process was involved.
- There are even a few non-IDists out there who are willing to publicly admit that natural selection acting on random variation is insufficient to explain all evolutionary change.
- JOHN_A_DESIGNER: There are even a few non-IDists out there who are willing to publicly admit that natural selection acting on random variation is insufficient to explain all evolutionary change.
- It is evident, therefore, from this last explanation, that there is a second direction of variation among men: _variation in their sense of the truth and value of their own thoughts_, and with them of the thoughts of others.
- HB to Bilbo: Behe (and almost nobody else) believes that no list of naturalistic processes can ever fully explain variation: he suspects that some supernatural process was involved … this is probably why he is regarded as a crank.
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