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Variation

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Variation or Variations may refer to:

Science and mathematics

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  • 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
  • Magnetic variation, difference between magnetic north and true north, measured as an angle
  • 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 or a measure space
  • Calculus of variations in mathematical analysis, a method of finding maxima and minima of functionals

Arts

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