(economics) The measure of how much money a consumer would pay before a price increase, to avoid the price increase.

(journalism, literature) A form of journalese characterized by the overuse of synonyms for fear of repeating a word.

(statistics) the proportion of cases not in the mode

(military, nautical, navigation) In navigation, at a given place and time, the horizontal angle between the true north and magnetic north measured east or west according to whether magnetic north lies east or west of true north.

(calculus) The form of calculus that deals with the maxima and minima of definite integrals of functions of many variables.

(linguistics) The situation where two or more forms appear in the same environment without a change in meaning, and without either one being considered incorrect.

plural of variation selector

(computing, typography) A metacharacter in Unicode that selects one of a set of semantically equivalent glyphs.

plural of variation ratio

(immunology) The mechanism by which an infectious organism changes its surface proteins in favor of circumventing a host immune response.