Variant
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Something that is slightly different from a type or norm. A different sequence of a gene (locus). A random number.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: showing variety, diverse showing deviation or disagreement variable
Example sentence: I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.
Variable
Part of speech: noun
Definition: something that is variablesomething whose value may be dictated or discovereda quantity that may assume any one of a set of valuesa symbol representing a variablea named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read thema variable star
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: able to varylikely to varymarked by diversity or differencehaving no fixed quantitative valuetending to deviate from a normal or recognized type
Example sentence: My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.