Definition of variation
- n. - 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.
- n. - Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from
a position or state; amount or rate of change.
- n. - Change of termination of words, as in declension,
conjugation, derivation, etc.
- n. - 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.
- n. - One of the different arrangements which can be made of
any number of quantities taking a certain number of them together.