Variant

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Variant may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

• Variant (magazine), British cultural magazine since 1984
• Variant cover, an issue of comic books printed with multiple cover art

In 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

In 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

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

See also

• Variety (disambiguation)
• Variation (disambiguation)