Showing variety, diverse. / Showing deviation or disagreement. / (obsolete) Variable. / (programming) Covariant and/or contravariant.

Something that is slightly different from a type or norm. / (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus). / (computing) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.

plural of variant

(typography, Unicode) A shape variant of a Han character, encoded for historical reasons.

plural of z-variant

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

plural of splice variant

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

plural of variant reading

Alternative spelling of Delta variant