Definition: 1. A change, especially in the amount or level of something. 2. A thing that is different from other things in the same general group. 3. An instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change. 4. An activity that varies from a norm or standard.
Use 'variation' in a sentence:
1. We discuss first a wide variety of evidence bearing upon the thickness and constitutional variation of plates.
2. At Philadelphia' s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
3. The human population contains a great variety of genetic variation, but drugs are tested on just a few thousand people.
4. Variations of this programme can be arranged to suit your requirements.
5. Peckham, himself a cancer specialist, is well aware of the wide variations in medical practice.
6. Another is that there is too much variation among people to believe that they are dominated by, or at the mercy of, aggressive impulses.
7. Scientists at the time often depended on the royal courts for patronage. But there was considerable variation in the relationships between the courts and scientists in different countries.
8. This is a benign variation within circadian rhythms known as a chronotype.
9. Another kind of period variation,\\ "Glitches,\\" are seen in several pulsars.
10. The necessary conditions for optimality were derived calculus of variations.
11. National data masks the very large variation in the performance of individual universities.
12. It is a global record: there is remarkably little variation in isotope ratios in sedimentary specimens taken from different continental locations.
13. A feature of these is the Filipino variation on the Mexican pinata: a bamboo frame from which dangle packages of sweets, fruit, and toys on strings.
14. To address this, a variation on the original escapement was invented in 1670, in England.
15. Selfeet is a new variation on selfie, which means to capture a person's shoes atop high-impact flooring.
16. In the second variation, called the "vertical archipelago", the village exploits resources in widely dispersed locations, constituting a series of independent production "islands".
17. Language variation in China English is also a communicative strategy.
18. The variations found are attributable to well-defined geochemical processes.
19. Averaged across all species, temperature explained 16 per cent of beak size variation.
20. Prices are subject to variation.
21. Colds mutate even while they're infecting you, and new strains pop up so often that by the time drug-makers create a vaccine against one variation, the serum is already out of date.
22. These prices are subject to variation.
23. There is, however, a definite structural variation between the male and female brain.
24. We call this variation the density differential.
25. Modern violins had a greater variation, a larger differential.
26. Seasonal variations need to be taken into account.
27. The subspecies Acinonyx jubatus guttatus may also have been a variation due to a recessive gene.
28. Chemical analysis of invertebrate prey reveals remarkable variation in nutrient composition among species; even within species, nutrient composition may vary considerably.
29. This variation shows up in the trees growth rings.
30. Several sets of variations, a few independent movements, two concertos, and a concert allegro were published after his death.
31. He discovered vast temperature variations between the bottom and top of the building, data that could have been used to facilitate more natural cooling.
32. The survey found a wide variation in the prices charged for canteen food.
33. One variation on vertical farming that has been developed is to grow plants in stacked trays that move on rails.
34. There's some variation depending on hair colour but for an average adult the strand count is 100,000, so losing 100 a day is not too bad.
35. Every day without variation my grandfather ate a plate of cold ham.
36. To further confuse the issue, there is an enormous variation in the amount of sleep people feel happy with.
37. The dial records very slight variations in pressure.
38. In California, a lack of genetic variation in the Argentine ant has allowed the species to spread widely.
39. The stories are all variations on the theme of unhappy marriage.
40. Many theories on punishment exist, all of which are variations on a theme.
41. His numerous complaints are all variations on a theme.
42. Information about dietary variation among community members is derived by analyzing trace elements in human bone.
43. The group perform variations on soul and gospel music.
44. There are wide variations caused by different academic programme structures.
45. Currency exchange rates are always subject to variation.
46. Variation among humans is limited to the possible permutations of our genes.
47. There are wide variations in prices.
48. It turned out that Watson and Venter shared fewer variations in their genetic sequences than they each shared with Kim.
49. This delicious variation on an omelette is quick and easy to prepare.
50. Two standard astronomical techniques have been used in the search for possible time variations in the solar output.
51. This soup is a spicy variation on a traditional favourite.
52. A variation of a gene can influence people's social behavior.
53. The results of the survey were weighted to allow for variations in the sample.
