(genetics) A varian form of a mRNA produced by RNA splicing

plural of splice variant

(statistics) A collection of statistical models, and their associated procedures, in which the observed variance is partitioned into components due to different explanatory variables.

plural of product variance

(obsolete or rare) Covariance.

(textual criticism) Any of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text.

(idiomatic) not in accord; in a state of disagreement

plural of copy-number variant

plural of variant reading

In a variant manner.