:something substantially the same, but in different form," 1848, from variant (adj.).
variant (adj.)
late 14c., "tending to change," from Old French variant and directly from Latin variantem (nominative varians), present participle of variare "to change" (see vary).
雙語例句
1. There are so many variant spellings of his name.
他的名字有很多不同的拼寫形式。
來自柯林斯例句
2. This game is a variant of baseball.
這種運動是由棒球演變而來的。
來自《權威詞典》
3. Semasiology is a variant name for semantics.
Semasiology是 Semantics的異名.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
4. The skills which use SafeArray to transfer VARIANT data are also included in.
運用安全數組傳遞VARIANT數據類型的技巧.
來自互聯網
5. An intriguing variant to pipelines would be to carry the water using the existing system of canals.