Variation
[veərɪ'eɪʃ(ə)n] or [,vɛrɪ'eʃən]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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.
錄入:卢卡斯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Alteration, mutation, change, mortification.[2]. Deviation, departure, difference, diversity, discrepance, discrepancy, VARIANCE.
科林整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Deviation, alteration, mutation, diversity, departure, change, abnormity,exception, discrepancy
ANT:Continuance, fixity, indivergency, exemplification, law, rule, uniformity, harmony,agreement
琼整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Great importance has been attached to this variation in the inclination of the equator to the orbit by Dr. Croll in his book _Climate and Time_. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Some authors have maintained that the amount of variation in our domestic productions is soon reached, and can never afterward be exceeded. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- We shall, however, be enabled to discuss what circumstances are most favourable to variation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- A particular shade of any colour may acquire a new degree of liveliness or brightness without any other variation. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The question is not, at what period of life any variation may have been caused, but at what period the effects are displayed. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Thus it will be possible to introduce almost endless changes in the style of house by variation of the same set of molds. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Every variation in the speaker's voice is repeated in the vibrations of the metal disk and hence in the minute motion of the pointer and in the consequent record on the cylinder. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- These slight proportional differences, due to the laws of growth and variation, are not of the slightest use or importance to most species. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Such a slight difference would not make an appreciable variation in the candle-power of the lamps. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I will here only allude to what may be called correlated variation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Educationally, emphasis may not be put on eternal truth, but it is put on the authority of book and teacher, and individual variation is discouraged. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It cannot therefore be affected by any variation in that particular. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- How will the struggle for existence, briefly discussed in the last chapter, act in regard to variation? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- On the other hand, the ordinary belief that the amount of possible variation is a strictly limited quantity, is likewise a simple assumption. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The necessity for this was due to the many radical variations made from accepted methods. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The improved instrument produces untempered tones without requiring extraordinary variations from the usual arrangement of the keys. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Her constitution is both sound and elastic;--better calculated to endure variations of climate than many more robust. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Unless favourable variations be inherited by some at least of the offspring, nothing can be effected by natural selection. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- These bud variations, as they may be named, can be propagated by grafts, offsets, etc. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Trifling variations in the ingredients, in the proportion and in the heating, made it either pliable as kid, tougher than ox hide, as elastic as whalebone, or as rigid as flint. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The suddenness of the effect can be accounted for only by a cause which can operate suddenly, the accidental variations of the seasons. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The same principles are followed by horticulturists; but the variations are here often more abrupt. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- These languages are not different things, they are variations of one thing. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- All commodities are more or less liable to variations of price, but some are much more so than others. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But man can and does select the variations given to him by nature, and thus accumulates them in any desired manner. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The sound-waves impinging upon the distant transmitter varied the resistance of the carbon button therein, thus causing corresponding variations in the strength of the battery current. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Variations in the Proportion between the respective Values of Gold and Silver. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is liable, besides, to almost continual variations. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He can never act by selection, excepting on variations which are first given to him in some slight degree by nature. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
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