Variant

Variant may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Variant (magazine), a former British cultural magazine
 * Variant cover, an issue of comic books with varying cover art
 * Variant (novel), a novel by Robison Wells
 * "The Variant", 2021 episode of the TV series Loki
 * Sylvie (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a character who was originally referred to as the Variant
 * "Variant", a fictional term in the Marvel Cinematic Universe pertaining to the multiverse

Gaming

 * Chess variant, a game derived from, related to or similar to chess in at least one respect
 * List of poker variants
 * List of Tetris variants

Mathematics and computing

 * Variant (logic), a term or formula obtained from another one by consistently renaming all variables
 * Variant symlinks, a symbolic link to a file that has a variable name embedded in it
 * Variant type, in programming languages
 * Z-variant, unicode characters that share the same etymology but have slightly different appearances

Computer security

 * In network security, varieties of computer worms are called variants.

Biology

 * Allele, a variant of a gene
 * In microbiology and virology, a variant, or 'genetic variant' is a subtype of a known microorganism.

Vehicles

 * Volkswagen Variant, an air-cooled station wagon produced until the early 1980s
 * TeST TST-5 Variant, a Czech aircraft design of the 1990s

Other uses

 * Variant name (geography), a name for a geographic feature that is not in primary use
 * Variant Chinese character, Chinese characters that can be used interchangeably
 * Orthographical variant, a variant spelling of a botanical name
 * Varyant, a road in İzmir, Turkey
 * In an invitation to tender, a supplier response which in part offers a solution different from that specified by the buyer