Variation

[veərɪ'eɪʃ(ə)n] or [,vɛrɪ'eʃən]

解释:

(noun.) an activity that varies from a norm or standard; 'any variation in his routine was immediately reported'.

(noun.) the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard; 'who is responsible for these variations in taxation?'.

(noun.) an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard; 'he patented a variation on the sandal'.

(noun.) a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished.

(noun.) an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change.

(noun.) (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon).

(noun.) the process of varying or being varied.

艾伯特整理--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) 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.

(n.) Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change.

(n.) Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc.

(n.) 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.

(n.) One of the different arrangements which can be made of any number of quantities taking a certain number of them together.

录入:卢卡斯

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Alteration, mutation, change, mortification.[2]. Deviation, departure, difference, diversity, discrepance, discrepancy, VARIANCE.

科林整理

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Deviation, alteration, mutation, diversity, departure, change, abnormity,exception, discrepancy

ANT:Continuance, fixity, indivergency, exemplification, law, rule, uniformity, harmony,agreement

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