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Meaning variant meaning

What does variant mean?
Definitions in simple English

variant

A varient of something is a bit different than the original.

variant

differing from a norm or standard a variant spelling (= discrepancy) an event that departs from expectations exhibiting variation and change letters variant in size (= version, variation, edition) something a little different from others of the same type an experimental version of the night fighter a variant of the same word an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone the boy is a younger edition of his father (= strain) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups a new strain of microorganisms (= random variable) a variable quantity that is random

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Simple sentences

There's one more variant.

Movie subtitles

If I find a new variant, I'll get my name in a field guide.
Then we began encountering pressure, variant stress, force 7, the works.
The new M3 Variant's highly volatile.
We have to use a mixture of standard fuel. and the new M3 variant.
Will switch to M3 variant at sixty-five percent.
Will switch to the M3 variant at sixty-five percent.
We can't hurry the M3 variant.
Too much M3 variant in the fuel.
We'll use pure M3 Variant and don't forget they're not susceptible to g-force.
It might be a new variant.
One vast and immane, interwoven, interacting. multi-variant, multinational dominion of dollars!
I worked out a variant.
Does this variant betray your meaning?
During the last five years our team at the chair for mental hygiene has arrived at the final solution the so-called Leffingwell-Bronstein table, the so-called Zajic variant.
Look, Simon, that herd's a rare variant, the last of an evolutionary line.
Variant B is out.
Look, does this variant betray your meaning?
A variant of the Typhoon class, she's 650 feet long and 32,000 tons submerged displacement.
For older people we have developed a Woodruff soft cream variant.
We keep choosing but we still come back to the first variant.
Let's run a phase variant analysis.
They recalibrated and locked onto our phase variant.
It could exchange genes with plague, anthrax, smallpox, flu strains, which creates variant viruses against which a human population has no immunological defense.
The Marburg variant they created in the lab takes three.
A Marburg variant virus was genetically engineered with a prion, thereby creating a biological agent that would kill quickly, spread rapidly and, if the virus were neutralized, the fused prion would finish off the host.
The virus, Marburg variant PRP, a man-made life form that had never been exposed to the environment, leaked.
I think the Minoan, an unknown variant.
The scramble suit itself is purportedly made up of approximately a million and a half fraction-representations of men, women, and children in every variant making the wearer of a scramble suit the ultimate Everyman.
A variant of the Shanti virus.
So, if we keep going at the current rate, and building a variant for poor weather, shorter daylight hours and possible illness, then we should have filled in the whole map by mid-afternoon of December 25th.
A prion variant developed in Africa with General Juma.
The actual pathogen is a prion variant,designed to attack The central nervous system and ultimately destroy it.
He was infected with the prion variant.
A variant?
At this height, any variant in trajectory resulting from a simple jump or being pushed off the building will be evident in where they land.
It's a variant on the grandfather paradox.
Filed under a variant name, transferred, wrongly categorised.

News and current affairs

This was a return to a variant of the old gold standard argument.
The precautionary principle is a variant on Pascal's famous wager on the existence of God.
Natural selection is the process by which the variants within a species that are best adapted to survive in their environment win the reproductive contest - at least until an even better-adapted variant comes along.
The word democracy came to be associated with its particular American variant, and took on an imperialist connotation.
My sense is that politicians will opt for a weak variant of greater fiscal union, but that, ultimately they will fail to execute it for the eurozone as we know it today.
Postponing the exit after the June election with a new government committed to a variant of the same failed policies (recessionary austerity and structural reforms) will not restore growth and competitiveness.
The Siniora government and the opposition are likely to reach a compromise within the next few months, probably on the basis of some variant of Arab League proposals.
This is a modern-day variant of the classic prescription to start tightening before inflation sets in too deeply, even if employment has not fully recovered.
In the early 1980's, the predominant view on the Left was that the ancient Hindu caste system was a variant of European feudalism.
Later investigations have shown that the transmitting agent in variant CJD shares identical biological properties with BSE's agent, supporting a causal relationship.
Until we know the answers to these questions, it seems premature to decide that we are witnessing the beginning of the end of variant CJD.
Indeed, secondary transmission by blood transfusion or surgical instruments might even result in variant CJD becoming endemic in the UK population.
CAMBRIDGE - Two decades ago, many people thought that the lesson of the 1980's was that Japan's variant of capitalism was the best model, and that other countries around the world should and would follow it.
A decade ago, many thought that the lesson of the 1990's was that the United States' variant of capitalism was the best model, and that other countries should and would follow.
Its economy is a variant of crony capitalism, in which economic success depends on one's political connections, rather than on the meritocratic free-market competition from which liberty grows.
Democracy came to be associated with its particular American variant, and took on an imperialist connotation.
A variant of the economic argument for European unity is the claim that enhanced integration makes it easier to finance debt, because interest rates are lower.
One solution might be to create a variant of the B Corp - call it the E Corp - that could transform the for-profit education sector.
The economic variant of Machiavellianism is as powerful as the claim that political untruth can be virtuous.
A variant, seen in Europe, is the use of government borrowing to fill a demand and employment gap created by deficient private domestic and external demand.
A variant of this dynamic can be seen in Russia and many parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where the fall of the Berlin Wall did not usher in democracy, economic liberalization, and rapid output growth.
But instead of that happening, the country faces the grotesque revival of a domestic variant of the Cold War structure.
The Pakistani Taliban has employed a variant of this strategy in the past, ostentatiously negotiating truces with the military in order to allow their forces to rest and regroup before resuming their attacks shortly thereafter.
After all, when the chimpanzee itself was new and interesting (in the 1700's), contemporary scholars commonly judged it to be overwhelmingly similar to the human form - so much so, that it was commonly classified as a variant of humans.

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