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    A variant is a different form or version of something that is basically the same thing underneath. You hear this word a lot with viruses — a 'variant' of a virus is a version that has changed a little bit from the original. It's also used more generally: a variant spelling of a word, a variant of a recipe, a variant of a game's rules.

    變異；變體

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組成From Latin 'variare,' to change or vary.

同家族的字

  • varyshares the Latin root 'variare,' to change
  • variousshares the same Latin root meaning 'different'

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

variantadj/ˈvɛəɹi.ənt/

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    Showing variety, diverse.

  • 2

    Showing deviation or disagreement.

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    obsoleteVariable.

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    computingengineeringmathematicsCovariant and/or contravariant.

variantnoun/ˈvɛəɹi.ənt/

  • 1

    Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.

    • All breeds of dog are variants of the species “Canis lupus familiaris”.
  • 2

    biologygeneticsmedicineA different sequence of a gene (locus).

    • Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID.
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    computingengineeringmathematicsA variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.

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    human-scienceslexicographylinguisticsOne of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.

    • The word "kerosine" is a variant of “kerosene”.
    • The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。