variant
vari·ant (--ənt)
adjective
- varying; different; esp., different in some way from others of the same kind or class, or from some standard or type
- Archaic variable; changeable
Etymology: OFr < L varians: see variance
noun
anything that is variant, as a different spelling of the same word, a different version of a tale, myth, or literary passage, etc.
variant
n.
Moreover, next-generation versions of worms and viruses are often referred to as variants of the base type. Virus numbering schemes reflect the notion of variants by giving viruses a base name and appending a letter or number to identify the variant, such as Sobig.a and Sobig.f.
See Also: Malware; Polymorphic Virus; Virus; Worm.
Preposition: of
- gene: The genotype of an organism is the specific and characteristic combination of variants of all genes the organism carries.
Converse of object
- splice: Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been described; however, their full length nature has not been determined.
- encode: Within these fundamentally different approaches, there are several encoding variants.
- detect: For now we detect 2 variants, they are very similar and just differ with their encryption at the first layer.
Adjective modifier
- allelic: This requires a large-scale genotyping and bioinformatics program, in crop and model systems, that relates allelic variants to gene function.
- textual: There must have been serious textual variants between the texts to warrant such action.
- genetic: The project is looking for new genetic variants linked to diabetes type I, with cooperation from clinicians across the UK.
- minor: Minor variants exist of the basic design of recovery vehicle.
- slight: Make sure you don't have slight variants which will create new entries.
Modifies a noun
- cjd: The same theory could explain some cases of new variant CJD in humans.
- spelling: We will be offering a means of searching for all of the variant spellings automatically in a later stage of the project.
- allele: Altered cell surface expression of human MC1R variant receptor alleles associated with red hair and skin cancer risk.
- reading: He applies the same argument to some of the recorded variant readings of the Qur'an.
- ending: None of the variant endings were the work of the original writer.
Noun used with modifier
- splice: The presence or absence of expression of these splice variants is being documented in normal tissues and a spectrum of brain tumors.
- pronunciation: First, within-word pronunciation variants were generated by applying a set of five optional phonological rules to the words in the baseline lexicon.
- within-word: First, within-word pronunciation variants were generated by applying a set of five optional phonological rules to the words in the baseline lexicon.
- vernacular: If women were more integrated into such networks, then they might use more vernacular variants than men.
- gene: Why should the presence of the shorter gene variant make such a difference?
- spelling: You will need to consider spelling variants, abbreviations, alternative meanings and to identify broader and narrower terms.
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