variant

Meanings

Adjective

• Showing variety, diverse.
• Showing deviation or disagreement.
• Variable.
• Covariant and/or contravariant.

Noun

• Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
• A different sequence of a gene (locus).
• A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
• One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.

Origin

• Recorded since c.1380, from Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō.