Phrase Hound found 22 phrases and 26 compound words that contain variant. The most common are listed below. Open variant in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 22
- Alpha variantThe highly virulent B.1.1.7 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Beta variantThe highly virulent B.1.351 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Epsilon variantThe B.1.427 and B.1.429 strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Delta variantThe highly virulent B.1.617.2 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Gamma variantThe highly virulent P.1 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Mu variantThe B.1.621 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Eta variantThe B.1.525 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Lambda variantThe C.37 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Theta variantThe P.3 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Omicron variantThe highly virulent B.1.1.529 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Kappa variantThe B.1.617.1 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Zeta variantThe P.2 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Iota variantThe B.1.526 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Omega variantA hypothetical, extremely virulent strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Kraken variantThe highly transmissible XBB.1.5 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. A subvariant of the Omicron variant (“B.1.1.529”). Kraken became the predominant strain in the United States at the end of 2022.
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- time-variantOf a system whose output response depends on the moment of observation as well as the moment of input signal application.
- z-variantA variant Han character, theoretically unifiable under the Han unification policy but encoded separately for backwards compatibility.
- copy-number variantA DNA sequence, 1000 nucleotides (or synonymously base pairs) in length or longer, that is present a variable number of times as copies in a genome relative to a reference genome.
- splice variantA variant form of an mRNA produced by RNA splicing.
- variant readingAny of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text.
- variant readingsplural of variant reading: Any of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text.
Compound words 26
- bivariantHaving two independent variables.
- neurovariantA strain of a virus that affects neural tissue.
- scariantAn unconfirmed or unstudied variant or strain of COVID-19 that causes widespread panic.
- subvariantA subsidiary variant; a subtype of something.
- immunovariantimmunologically variant
- nonvariantNot variant.
- biovariantA biological variant
- epivariantAn epigenetic variant
- genovariantA genetic variant
- glycovariantAny of a range of compounds that have different glycosylation sites