VARIANT

I. adjective Date: 14th century variable , manifesting variety, deviation, or disagreement, varying usually slightly from the standard form , II. noun Date: circa 1848 one of two or more persons or things exhibiting usually slight differences: as, one that exhibits variation from a type or norm, one of two or more different spellings (as labor and labour ) or pronunciations (as of economics \\ek-, ēk-\\) of the same word, one of two or more words (as geographic and geographical ) or word elements (as mon- and mono- ) of essentially the same meaning differing only in the presence or absence of an affix