variant

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an event that departs from expectations
noun (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
noun a variable quantity that is random

From Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”). First attested in c. 1380.

=stillado=, rare variant of stiletto. — Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, George Chapman
VARIANT: =Y en tal caso=. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
Contrahit orator, variant in carmine vates. — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

discrepancy, variance

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