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Definition of Variation

Variation 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. Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change. Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc. 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. One of the different arrangements which can be made of any number of quantities taking a certain number of them together. Related Definitions: Act, Alternation, Amount, And, Any, As, Be, Can, Certain, Change, Color, Conjugation, Declension, Departure, Derivation, Deviation, Different, Diversity, Essential, Extent, Fanciful, Form, From, Harmony, Identity, In, Key, Language, Lights, Made, Melody, Modification, Musical, Mutation, New, Number, Of, One, Or, Original, Partial, Position, Presentation, Preserve, Qualities, Quantities, Rate, Repetition, Shall, Size, So, Sometimes, State, Still, Taking, Termination, That, The, Their, Them, Theme, Thing, Thought, Time, To, Together, Tune, Variation, Varied, Varying, Which, With, Yet

Variation Quotations The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances. George Cuvier A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money. David Ricardo In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed. David Ricardo Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place. Phillip E. Johnson I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' Brian Ferneyhough

Variation Translations variation in French is dissidence variation in Italian is aberrazione

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