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I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.
Jami Attenberg

Meaning of "variation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VARIATION

variation  [ˌvɛərɪˈeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VARIATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Variation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VARIATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of variation in the English dictionary

The first definition of variation in the dictionary is the act, process, condition, or result of changing or varying; diversity. Other definition of variation is an instance of varying or the amount, rate, or degree of such change. Variation is also something that differs from a standard or convention.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VARIATION


abbreviation
əˌbriːvɪˈeɪʃən
affiliation
əˌfɪlɪˈeɪʃən
appreciation
əˌpriːʃɪˈeɪʃən
appropriation
əˌprəʊprɪˈeɪʃən
association
əˌsəʊsɪˈeɪʃən
aviation
ˌeɪvɪˈeɪʃən
depreciation
dɪˌpriːʃɪˈeɪʃən
deviation
ˌdiːvɪˈeɪʃən
differentiation
ˌdɪfəˌrɛnʃɪˈeɪʃən
humiliation
hjuːˌmɪlɪˈeɪʃən
initiation
ɪˌnɪʃɪˈeɪʃən
irradiation
ɪˌreɪdɪˈeɪʃən
mediation
ˌmiːdɪˈeɪʃən
negotiation
nɪˌɡəʊʃɪˈeɪʃən
pronunciation
prəˌnʌnsɪˈeɪʃən
radiation
ˌreɪdɪˈeɪʃən
Reconciliation
ˌrɛkənˌsɪlɪˈeɪʃən
recreation
ˌrɛkrɪˈeɪʃən
remediation
rɪˌmiːdɪˈeɪʃən
retaliation
rɪˌtælɪˈeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VARIATION

variable star
variable type
variable-density wind tunnel
variable-geometry
variable-sweep
variableness
variably
variance
variant
variant CJD
variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
variant form
variant reading
variant spelling
variate
variational
variationally
variationist
variative

WORDS THAT END LIKE VARIATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation
federation

Synonyms and antonyms of variation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «VARIATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «variation» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of variation

Translation of «variation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VARIATION

Find out the translation of variation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of variation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «variation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

> 略有变化的形式
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

variación
570 millions of speakers

English

variation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भिन्नता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تباين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

изменение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

variação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পরিবর্তন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

variation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Variasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Variation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

バリエーション
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

~의 변형
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Variasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

biến thể
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாறுபாடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फरक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

varyasyon
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

variante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Odmiana
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зміна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

variație
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παραλλαγή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

variasie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

variation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

variasjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of variation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VARIATION»

The term «variation» is very widely used and occupies the 6.662 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VARIATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «variation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «variation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about variation

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10 QUOTES WITH «VARIATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word variation.
1
Laurie Halse Anderson
I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.'
2
Jami Attenberg
I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.
3
James Balog
We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone.
4
Joe Barton
I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation reasons and I think mankind has been adapting to climate as long as man has walked the earth.
5
Johannes Brahms
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
6
Georges Cuvier
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.
7
Charles Darwin
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
8
Charles Duke
I think the future of lunar bases has to be somewhere around the South or North Pole. You have less variation in temperature and more daylight hours.
9
James Fenton
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.
10
Walter Gilbert
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VARIATION»

Discover the use of variation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to variation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Variation: A Central Concept in Biology
This volume situates the role of variability within this broad framework, bringing variation back to the center of the evolutionary stage. ·Provides an overview of current thinking on variation in evolutionary biology, functional ...
Benedikt Hallgrímsson, Brian K. Hall, 2011
2
Analysing Variation in English
Analysing Variation in English brings together a range of perspectives on the collection, analysis and broader relevance of variable language data.
Warren Maguire, April McMahon, 2011
3
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
This volume is a collection of papers that illustrate the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation.
Randi Reppen, Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Douglas Biber, 2002
4
Variation Across Speech and Writing
This widely acclaimed empirical study uses a factor analysis to identify six dimensions of variation on the basis of linguistic co-occurence patterns.
Douglas Biber, 1991
5
Regular Variation
A comprehensive account of the theory and applications of regular variation.
N. H. Bingham, C. M. Goldie, J. L. Teugels, 1989
6
Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation: A ...
This book combines theoretical work in linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics with empirical work based on a corpus of London adolescent conversation.
Gisle Andersen, 2001
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Sociolinguistic Variation and Change
The book deals with a number of different but related topics: * The role of English in the world, and the nature of Standard English or Englishes * Language as a human issue and how sociolinguistic research might solve educational and other ...
Peter Trudgill, 2002
8
American English: Dialects and Variation
This book provides a very readable, up-to-date description of language variation in American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. contains new chapters on social and ethnic dialects, including a separate chapter ...
Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling, 2005
9
Social and Stylistic Variation in Spoken French: A ...
This volume is the first examination and exploration of variation in French that studies in a unified way the levels of phonology, grammar and lexis using quantitative methods.
Nigel Armstrong, 2001
10
Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison
Douglas Biber's new book gives a linguistic analysis of register in four widely differing languages: English, Nukulaelae Tuvaluan, Korean, and Somali.
Douglas Biber, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VARIATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term variation is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Gene Variation Identified for Teen Binge-Eating
Source: University of Bristol A variation of a gene that can lead teenagers to binge eat has been identified by researchers. The work, carried out by academics at ... «Bioscience Technology, Jul 15»
2
Variation In Antibiotic Prescribing Among VA Physicians
The most interesting finding was the huge variation in prescribing patterns. Lead author Barbara Jones, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of internal medicine at the ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
3
How To Play Mortal Kombat X Without Character Variations
One of the key features that NetherRealm Studios introduced in Mortal Kombat X is the fighter variations. Each character gets three different variations that ... «Cinema Blend, Jul 15»
4
Cost of childbirth varies widely in US hospitals
Xu said that continued efforts are needed to identify other factors that could explain the remaining majority of variation in childbirth hospitalization costs. «CBS News, Jul 15»
5
Clone-Free, Single-Molecule Genome Assembly Illuminates …
June 30, 2015 | A large team of scientists has published one of the most detailed explorations to date of complex structural variation in a human genome. «Bio-IT World, Jun 15»
6
Researchers discover surprisingly wide variation across species in …
The wide range of variation discovered by the study may suggest that the insulin signaling network could be targeted by new medical therapies to treat ... «Phys.Org, May 15»
7
Pilot Analysis from GTEx Project Illuminates Gene Expression …
Overall, GTEx will eventually compare whole-genome sequence variation with RNA sequencing data from about 1,000 postmortem donors across more than 50 ... «GenomeWeb, May 15»
8
Study finds hospital variation in outcomes for extremely premature …
Furthermore, a wide, unexplained between-hospital variation in survival and impairment rates leaves it unclear whether treatment will be in the infant's interest. «News-Medical.net, May 15»
9
“Significant Variation” Found in Skulls From Pre-Contact Peru
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA—It had long been thought that there was very little skeletal variation among the pre-Columbian peoples in the New World, based ... «Archaeology, Mar 15»
10
New method allows for greater variation in band gap tunability
They found that by controlling the interactions between neutral and electrically charged planes of atoms in the oxide, they could achieve much greater variation ... «Phys.Org, Jan 15»

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