Phrase Hound found 17 phrases and 13 compound words that contain variation. The most common are listed below. Open variation in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 17
- Genetic variation
- variation of the fieldAny of the ways (such as barry or chequy) in which a field or charge may be covered with a pattern, rather than a flat tincture or a simple division.
- magnetic variationIn navigation, at a given place and time, the horizontal angle between the true north and magnetic north measured east or west according to whether magnetic north lies east or west of true north.
- free variationThe situation where two or more forms appear in the same environment without a change in meaning, and without either one being considered incorrect.
- elegant variationThe use of synonyms to avoid repetition (regarded as a stylistic fault when done excessively).
- equivalent variationThe measure of how much money a consumer would pay before a price increase, to avoid the price increase.
- variation ratiothe proportion of cases not in the mode
- antigenic variationThe mechanism by which an infectious organism changes its surface proteins in favor of circumventing a host immune response.
- variation compassA compass which can be adjusted so it doesn't only point to magnetic north, but to true north, depending on the variation in the geographical religion.
- variation selectorA metacharacter in Unicode that selects one of a set of semantically equivalent glyphs.
- copy number variationThe variation of the number of copies (normally two) of a gene, or of sequences of DNA, in the genome of a specific individual; has been linked to some diseases
- variation selectorsplural of variation selector: A metacharacter in Unicode that selects one of a set of semantically equivalent glyphs.
- Najdorf VariationA chess opening variation arising from the Sicilian Defence characterized by the moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6.
- Linburg-Comstock variationAn occasional tendinous connection between the flexor pollicis longus and the flexor digitorum profundus of the index finger and/or middle finger, found in around 21% of the population.
- Mieses-Kotrč VariationA chess opening variation arising from the Scandinavian Defense characterized by the moves 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5.
- variation ratiosplural of variation ratio: the proportion of cases not in the mode
- variation compassesplural of variation compass: A compass which can be adjusted so it doesn't only point to magnetic north, but to true north, depending on the variation in the geographical religion.
Compound words 13
- semivariationVariation that only considers certain parts of a function or a stochastic process, typically focusing on only the positive or only the negative changes rather than all changes.
- variationistA sociolinguist who studies systematic patterns of variation of linguistic forms.
- nonvariationAbsence of variation.
- genovariationgenetic variation
- hypervariationExcessive variation
- intervariationvariation between multiple things or conditions
- macrovariationA relatively large variation
- multivariationmultivariant variation
- subvariationA subordinate variation; one of the ways in which a given variation can vary further.
- variationismThe sociolinguistic study of variation in usage among speakers of the same language.