Variation

Variation or Variations may refer to:

Science and mathematics

• Variation (astronomy), any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite, particularly of the moon
• Genetic variation, the difference in DNA among individuals or the differences between populations
  • Human genetic variation, genetic differences in and among populations of humans
• Magnetic variation, difference between magnetic north and true north, measured as an angle
• p-variation in mathematical analysis, a family of seminorms of functions
• Coefficient of variation in probability theory and statistics, a standardized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution
• Total variation in mathematical analysis, a way of quantifying the change in a function over a subset of $\mathbb {R} ^{n}$ or a measure space
• Calculus of variations in mathematical analysis, a method of finding maxima and minima of functionals

Arts

• Variation (ballet) or pas seul, solo dance or dance figure
• Variations (ballet), a 1966 ballet by choreographer George Balanchine
• Variations (film), a 1998 short film by Nathaniel Dorsky
• Variations (journal), a journal of literature published by Peter Lang
• The Variations, a 2023 novel by Patrick Langley

Music

• Variation (music), a formal technique where material is altered during repetition
• Variations (Cage), a series of works by American avant-garde composer John Cage
• Variations (musical), 1982 Australian musical by Nick Enright and Terence Clarke
• Variations (Stravinsky), Igor Stravinsky's last orchestral composition written in 1963–64
• Variation (Hensoukyoku), album by Akina Nakamori
• Les Variations, a French rock group
• Variations (Andrew Lloyd Webber album), 1978
• Variations (Eddie Rabbitt album), 1978

Other uses

• Variation (game), modifications made to a game by a community of players (as opposed to a central authority)
• Variation (game tree), a particular series of moves
• Variation (linguistics), a linguistic characteristic of languages
• Variation (horse), a British Thoroughbred
• Variation of the field, a concept in heraldry

See also

• All pages with titles containing Variation
• Variability (disambiguation)
• Change (disambiguation)
• Variations on a Theme (disambiguation)
• Rate of change (disambiguation)
• Repetition (disambiguation)
• Variant (disambiguation)
• Calculus of variations, a field of mathematics which deals with functions of functions
• Genetic diversity, total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species
• Variance, expectation of deviation in probability theory or statistics