Synonyms of the word

variant

• adj. Showing variety, diverse.
• adj. Showing deviation or disagreement.
• adj. (obsolete) Variable.
• n. Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
• n. (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
• n. (computing) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
• n. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same…

departure

• n. The act of departing or something that has departed.
• n. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
• n. (euphemistic) A death.
• n. (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the…
• n. (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading,…
• n. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

deviation

• n. The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule,…
• n. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
• n. (contract law) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual…
• n. (Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile…
• n. (statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed…
• n. (metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.

difference

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being different.
• n. (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
• n. (countable) A disagreement or argument.
• n. (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
• n. (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
• n. (obsolete) Choice; preference.
• n. (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be…
• n. (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
• v. (transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.

different

• adj. Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
• adj. Various, assorted, diverse.
• adj. Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.
• adj. Unlike most others; unusual.
• n. (mathematics) The different ideal.

discrepancy

• n. An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
• n. The state or quality of being discrepant.

divergence

• n. The degree to which two or more things diverge.
• n. (obsolete) disagreement; difference.
• n. The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.

edition

• n. A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner.
• n. The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time.
• n. (sports) A particular instance of an event.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

strain

• n. (obsolete) Treasure.
• n. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
• n. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
• n. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
• n. A tendency or disposition.
• n. (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the…
• n. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
• n. (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement,…
• n. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be…
• v. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
• v. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
• v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
• v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
• v. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what…
• v. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
• v. (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
• v. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
• v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
• v. To urge with importunity; to press.
• n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
• n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
• n. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
• n. (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering…
• n. (obsolete) The track of a deer.

taxon

• n. (taxonomy) Any of the taxonomic categories, such as phylum or subspecies.

type

• n. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
• n. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment,…
• n. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
• n. (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
• n. (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to…
• n. Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
• n. (medicine) A blood group.
• n. (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament…
• n. (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can…
• n. (fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject…
• n. (chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded…
• n. (mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence…
• v. To put text on paper using a typewriter.
• v. To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
• v. To determine the blood type of.
• v. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
• v. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

var.

• adj. Abbreviation of variable.
• adj. Abbreviation of various.
• n. Abbreviation of variant.
• n. Abbreviation of variation.
• n. (botany, taxonomy) Abbreviation of variety.
• n. Abbreviation of variometer.

variable

• adj. Able to vary.
• adj. Likely to vary.
• adj. Marked by diversity or difference.
• adj. (mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value.
• adj. (biology) Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
• n. Something that is variable.
• n. Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
• n. (mathematics) A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
• n. (mathematics) A symbol representing a variable.
• n. (programming) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which…
• n. (astronomy) A variable star.
• n. (nautical) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts…

variance

• n. The act of varying or the state of being variable.
• n. A difference between what is expected and what happens.
• n. The state of differing or being in conflict.
• n. A discrepancy, especially between two legal documents.
• n. (statistics) The second central moment in probability.
• n. (computing, programming) covariance and contravariance generally.

variate

• n. A measurable quantity capable of taking on a number of values.
• n. A variable, often the set of x values plotted on a graph.
• v. (transitive) To alter; or vary; to make different.

variation

• n. The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
• n. A related but distinct thing.
• n. (nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north…
• n. (board games) A line of play that differs from the original.
• n. (music) A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre,…
• n. (genetics) The modification of a hereditary trait.

version

• n. A specific form or variation of something.
• n. A translation from one language to another.
• n. (obsolete) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
• n. An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
• n. (computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
• n. (medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being…
• n. (ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same…
• n. (obsolete or medicine) A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.
• v. (programming) To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.