Entertainment / Music / Variation: A formal principle in which some aspects of the music are altered but the original is still recognizable: it falls between repetition and contrast.
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Variation Noun Synonyms: change, changing, alteration, altering, variety, varying, modification, modifying, difference, differing, diversification, diversity, diversifying, modulation, modulating, conversion, converting, permutation, permuting
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Entertainment / Music / Chorale Variations: Baroque organ piece in which a chorale is the basis for a set of variations. MORE
Science / Tides and Currents / Variation (Of Compass): Difference between true north as determined by the Earth's axis of rotation and magnetic north as determined by the Earth's magnetism. Variation is designated as east or positive when the magnetic nee MORE
Science / Biology / Continuous Variation: Occurs when the phenotypes of traits controlled by a single gene cannot be sorted into two distinct phenotypic classes, but rather fall into a series of overlapping classes. MORE
Science / Tides and Currents / Variational Inequality: An inequality in the Moon's motion due mainly to the tangential component of the Sun's attraction. MORE
Business / Finance / Variation Margin: An approach to bond indexing that uses historical data to estimate the variance of the tracking error. MORE
Science / Biology / Discontinuous Variation: Occurs when the phenotypes of traits controlled by a single gene can be sorted into two distinct phenotypic classes. MORE