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# variation

«variation» in Mova's school dictionary: **A change or difference in amount or level: variation in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a variation, variations; also uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A change or difference in amount or level: variation in temperature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variation/#m1)

2) Something slightly different from the usual form: a variation of a game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variation/#m2)

3) (science) The differences between living things of the same kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variation/#m3)

4) (music) A new version of a tune. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variation/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science: variation between people's heights or eye colour; in maths and data: variation shows how much numbers spread out. In everyday life: a variation on a recipe or game. Phrases: «a variation on», «variation in».

### examples

- There is a lot of variation in the heights of children in our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variation/#x1)
- We played a variation of tag where you freeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variation/#x2)
- Temperature variation between day and night is large in the desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variation/#x3)
- Every snowflake shows variation in shape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variation/#x4)
- This cake is a variation on Gran's recipe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variation/#x5)
- The composer wrote ten variations on a simple tune. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variation/#x6)
- We should be able to trace this re-introduction by the variation in titles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variation/#x7)

### note

Countable (a variation, variations) or uncountable (much variation). Verb: vary. In data, the range (largest − smallest) is one simple measure of variation: heights 120–150 cm give a range of 30 cm.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «variation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/variation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.