Variation in a sentence as a noun

Hmm, sounds like the Apple variation of the 3 envelopes joke.

It also means more variation is presented to people who are monitoring a post's comments.

" or some variation of that, countless times when I was at theater/ballet company events/auditions.

And it's not like McDonald's - there's a large amount of variation that's inherent in an organization that barely looks at its members.

Since this is a biological system, you're going to have some variation and some females are going to have a lower sperm survival rate than others.

I have no idea what the range is, but I would be entirely unsurprised to learn the variation spreads over several orders of magnitude.

And the problem is developers?I've been using -moz and -webkit and -o vendor prefixes for years now, with virtually no variation or change.

Also, when you get a ridiculous request, stop and consider if maybe you can do some variation of it because people remember that stuff forever.

By adding variation, you should be able to capture more information from voters about the proper eventual location for a comment.

The fear among scientists that try to keep the lid on this question is that the answer might be yes, and worse that such variations will correlate with geographic or national groupings.

I think its critical to give the benefit of the doubt, allow a wide variation and then focus on what's really important- the relevant ability, their capabilities.

And the effect wasn't just behavioral; it was biological too. When Meaney’s researchers examined the brains of the adult rats, they found significant differences in the stress-response systems of the high—LG and low-LG rats, including big variations in the size and shape and complexity of the parts of the brain that regulated stress.

Reactor grade Plutonium can contain any variation of isotopes, essentially all of them are suitable for use in a reactor, but weapons grade Plutonium can only have a very small amount of Pu-240.

What seemed like a tiny variation in early mothering style, so small that decades of researchers hadn’t noticed it, created huge behavioral differences in mature rats, months after the licking and grooming had taken place.

"[3]So what's going in these studies of early hominid DNA is that we necessarily have tiny sample sizes, and we actually have no idea how much genetic variation there was in the population we call Neanderthal, how much in the population we call Denisovan, and so on.

"The fact that, given enough genetic data, individuals can be correctly assigned to their populations of origin is compatible with the observation that most human genetic variation is found within populations, not between them. It is also compatible with our finding that, even when the most distinct populations are considered and hundreds of loci are used, individuals are frequently more similar to members of other populations than to members of their own population.

"Together, however, the developmental natures of GCA and height, the likely influences of geneenvironment correlations and interactions on their developmental processes, and the potential for genetic background and environmental circumstances to release previously unexpressed genetic variation suggest that very different combinations of genes may produce identical IQs or heights or levels of any other psychological trait.

Variation definitions

noun

an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change

See also: fluctuation

noun

an activity that varies from a norm or standard; "any variation in his routine was immediately reported"

See also: variance

noun

a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished

noun

something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father"

See also: version variant edition

noun

an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard; "he patented a variation on the sandal"

noun

the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north

noun

the process of varying or being varied

noun

(astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)

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(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

See also: mutant mutation sport

noun

(ballet) a solo dance or dance figure

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the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard; "who is responsible for these variations in taxation?"