variation
Variation (lat. Variare "to change") stands for:
- Phenotypic variation (biology): the differences between individuals that occur in a population
- Variation (astronomy) , a special disturbance of the orbit of an astronomical object around a central body
- Variatio , a linguistic modification of a motif
- Variation (linguistics) , the change in language level depending on four environmental conditions in terms of grammar, lexicology, morphology, etc.
- Variation (music) , a composition that leads a theme one after the other through a variety of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic modifications
- Variation (navigation) , the deviation between true and magnetic north
- In mathematics:
- Variation (combinatorics) , an orderly selection, arrangement of elements considering the order
- Variation (math) , a measure of the fluctuation of a function
- Variation (measure theory) , one from a signed extent by the positive variation and the negative variation obtained measure
- Total variation norm, a norm for signed dimensions
- Variation (statistics) , the statistical spread of values
- an approach to solving extremal problems of functions, see calculus of variations
- free variation of allomorphs in linguistics
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