Variation

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

Music

 * Variation (music), a formal technique where material is altered during repetition
 * Variations (Cage), a series of works by American avant-garde composer John Cage
 * Variations (musical), 1982 Australian musical by Nick Enright and Terence Clarke
 * 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), 1978
 * 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