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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, ''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 $\mathbb^n$ 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), ''Variations'' (ballet), a 1966 ballet by choreographer George Balanchine
* Variations (film), ''Variations'' (film), a 1998 short film by Nathaniel Dorsky
* Variations (journal), ''Variations'' (journal), a journal of literature published by Peter Lang

Music

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

See also

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* 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

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