Variant

Variant may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Variant (magazine), a former British cultural magazine
• Variant cover, an issue of comic books with varying cover art
• Variant (novel), a novel by Robison Wells
• "Variant" (The Walking Dead), a 2022 television episode
• "The Variant", 2021 episode of the TV series Loki
  • Sylvie (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a character who was originally referred to as the Variant
  • "Variant", a fictional term in the Marvel Cinematic Universe pertaining to the multiverse

Gaming

• Chess variant, a game derived from, related to or similar to chess in at least one respect
• List of poker variants
• List of Tetris variants

Mathematics and computing

• Loop variant, a decreasing value ensuring that a loop in a computer programme terminates
• Variant (logic), a term or formula obtained from another one by consistently renaming all variables
• Variant symlinks, a symbolic link to a file that has a variable name embedded in it
• Variant type, in programming languages
• Z-variant, unicode characters that share the same etymology but have slightly different appearances

Computer security

• In network security, varieties of computer worms are called variants.

Biology

• Allele, a variant of a gene
• In microbiology and virology, a variant, or 'genetic variant' is a subtype of a known microorganism.

Vehicles

• Volkswagen Variant, an air-cooled station wagon produced until the early 1980s
• TeST TST-5 Variant, a Czech aircraft design of the 1990s

Other uses

• Variant name (geography), a name for a geographic feature that is not in primary use
• Variant Chinese character, Chinese characters that can be used interchangeably
• Orthographical variant, a variant spelling of a botanical name
• Varyant, a road in İzmir, Turkey
• In an invitation to tender, a supplier response which in part offers a solution different from that specified by the buyer

See also

• Variety (disambiguation)
• Variation (disambiguation)
• Change (disambiguation)
• Variations on a Theme (disambiguation)
• Rate of change (disambiguation)
• Repetition (disambiguation)
• Variability (disambiguation)
• Variance