Usually means: Difference or change among individuals.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word variation:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. variation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. variation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. variation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. variation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. variation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Variation, variation: Wordnik
  7. variation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. variation: Wiktionary
  9. variation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. variation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. variation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. variation: Dictionary.com
  13. variation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. variation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Variation (Hensoukyoku), Variation (astronomy), Variation (ballet), Variation (disambiguation), Variation (game tree), Variation (linguistics), Variation (music), Variation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Variation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. variation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. variation: Rhymezone
  19. variation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. variation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. variation: Free Dictionary
  22. variation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. variation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. variation: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Variation: Ballet
  3. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Error-Proofing Terms (No longer online)
  4. Variation (biology), Variation (genetics), variation: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Variation: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Variation (biology), Variation (genetics), Variation (linguistics), variation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Variation (biology), Variation (genetics), Variation (linguistics), variation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Variation: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  3. variation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Variation: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See variational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
noun:  A related but distinct thing.
noun:  (nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north.
noun:  (board games) A line of play that differs from the original.
noun:  (music) A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, counterpoint or orchestration; but with some invariant characteristic, e.g. a ground bass.
noun:  (genetics) The modification of a hereditary trait.
noun:  (astronomy) Deviation from the mean orbit of a heavenly body.
noun:  (linguistics) The situation where two or more linguistic forms appear in the same environment without a change in meaning, the choice of form being determined by factors of dialect, sociolect, register or simply the speaker's preference.

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