variant
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Is variant a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of variant?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Variable.obsolete
2. (programming) Covariant and/or contravariant.
noun (English)
1. (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).Examples: "Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID."
2. (programming) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
3. (linguistics, lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.Examples: "The word "kerosine" is a variant of “kerosene”."; "The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants."; "Each member of this group of two or more forms is called a variant. [...] In this case ‘-in’ and ‘-ing’ are variants of the sociolinguistic variable -ing."
Definition source: Wiktionary