• an activity that varies from a norm or standard; "any Variation in his routine was immediately reported"
• the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard; "who is responsible for these Variations in taxation?"
• (ballet) a solo dance or dance figure
• an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard; "he patented a Variation on the sandal"
• something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "an emery wheel is a modern variant of the grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father"
• a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
• an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
• (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
• (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth''s moon)
• the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north

'Variation' in other languages