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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
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