Variation

Variation

A Variation is a diffrence between species

Biodiversity
Genetic diversity, differences within a species

Physics

Magnetic variation, difference between magnetic north and true north, measured as an angle
Variation (astronomy), any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite, particularly of the Moon

Mathematics

Bounded variation
Calculus of variations, a field of mathematics which deals with functions of functions.
Permutation

Statistics

Coefficient of variation in statistics, the magnitude of standard deviation relative to the mean.
Statistical dispersion, a notion of the extent of spread in measurements of a variable, quantified in the variance.

Arts

Variation (music), formal technique where material is altered during repetition
Variations (album), composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Variation on a theme, in art history

Ballet

Variation (ballet), solo dance or dance figure
Balanchine's 1947 Theme and Variations (ballet)
Balanchine's 1966 Variations (ballet), an earlier version of Variations for Orchestra
Balanchine's 1982 Variations for Orchestra, a subsequent revision of Variations

Other

Variation (game), modifications made to a game by a community of players (as opposed to a central authority)
Variation (game tree), particular series of moves.
Variation (linguistics)

Translation

The word "Variation" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German.

Translation(s) in other languages: Catalan: Variació, Czech: Variace, Spanish: Variación, Galician: Variación, Lithuanian: Variacija, Georgian: ვარიაცია, Japanese: バリエーション, Norwegian (Bokmål): Variasjon, Polish: Wariacja, Portuguese: Variação, Russian: Вариация, Slovak: Variácia, Finnish: Variaatio, Ukrainian: Варіація.