1. 變體;變種;變化形式 A variant of a particular thing is something that has a different form to that thing, although it is related to it.
e.g. The quagga was a strikingly beautiful variant of the zebra... 斑驢是一種極美麗的斑馬變種。 e.g. An intriguing variant to pipelines would be to carry the water using the existing system of canals... 除用管道外，利用現有的運河系統來(lái)輸送水也很值得一試。
variant英英釋義
noun
1. something a little different from others of the same type
e.g. an experimental version of the night fighter a variant of the same word an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone the boy is a younger edition of his father
Synonym: versionvariationedition
2. a variable quantity that is random
Synonym: random variablevariatestochastic variablechance variable
3. an event that departs from expectations
Synonym: discrepancyvariance
4. (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups