Variant Explained
Variant may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Gaming
Mathematics and computing
- Variant (logic), a term or formula obtained from another one by consistently renaming all variables
- Variant symlinks, a symbolic link to a file that has a variable name embedded in it
- Variant type, in programming languages
- Z-variant, unicode characters that share the same etymology but have slightly different appearances
Computer security
Biology
- Allele, a variant of a gene
- In microbiology and virology, a variant, or 'genetic variant' is a subtype of a known microorganism.
Vehicles
- Volkswagen Variant, an air-cooled station wagon produced until the early 1980s
- TeST TST-5 Variant, a Czech aircraft design of the 1990s
Other uses
- Variant name (geography), a name for a geographic feature that is not in primary use
- Variant Chinese character, Chinese characters that can be used interchangeably
- Orthographical variant, a variant spelling of a botanical name
- Varyant, a road in İzmir, Turkey
- In an invitation to tender, a supplier response which in part offers a solution different from that specified by the buyer
See also
- Variety (disambiguation)
- Variation (disambiguation)
- Change (disambiguation)
- Variations on a Theme (disambiguation)
- Rate of change (disambiguation)
- Repetition (disambiguation)
- Variability (disambiguation)
- Variance