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variant

variant is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Changeable; changing; fickle. [Obs.] He is variant, he abit [abides] nowhere. Chaucer.
  2. 2.Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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