Exact Match:
- variation
- an activity that varies from a norm or standard; "any variation in his routine was immediately reported"
- the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard; "who is responsible for these variations in taxation?"
- an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard; "he patented a variation on the sandal"
- a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
- an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
- (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
- the process of varying or being varied
Synonyms:
- Nachtmusik,
- Proteus,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- about-face,
- absolute music,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- allotropism,
- allotropy,
- alteration,
- altering,
- alternation,
- amelioration,
- anacrusis,
- analysis,
- anatomization,
- apostasy,
- arrangement,
- atomization,
- bass passage,
- bend,
- betterment,
- bias,
- bourdon,
- branching off,
- break,
- bridge,
- burden,
- cadence,
- capriciousness,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- change,
- change of heart,
- change of pace,
- changeability,
- changeableness,
- changing,
- choice,
- choppiness,
- chorus,
- circuitousness,
- coda,
- composition,
- constructive change,
- continuity,
- contrariety,
- contrast,
- conversion,
- corner,
- crook,
- curve,
- dappleness,
- declination,
- defection,
- deflection,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- demarcation,
- departure,
- descant,
- desultoriness,
- desynonymization,
- deterioration,
- detour,
- development,
- deviability,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- difference,
- differencing,
- differentiation,
- differing,
- digression,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disconformity,
- discongruity,
- discontinuity,
- discordance,
- discrepancy,
- discreteness,
- discrimination,
- discursion,
- disequalization,
- disjunction,
- disorder,
- disparity,
- dissent,
- dissimilarity,
- dissonance,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- distinguishment,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- division,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- eccentricity,
- electronic music,
- errantry,
- erraticism,
- etude,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exercise,
- exorbitation,
- exposition,
- far cry,
- fickleness,
- figure,
- fitting,
- flightiness,
- flip-flop,
- fluctuation,
- folderol,
- freakishness,
- gradual change,
- hairpin,
- harmonic close,
- harmonization,
- her infinite variety,
- heterogeneity,
- heteromorphism,
- improvement,
- impulsiveness,
- inaccordance,
- incidental music,
- incompatibility,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- inconstancy,
- indirection,
- individualization,
- individuation,
- inequality,
- inharmoniousness,
- inharmony,
- instability,
- instrumental music,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- introductory phrase,
- invention,
- irreconcilability,
- irregularity,
- jerkiness,
- manifoldness,
- measure,
- melioration,
- mercuriality,
- mitigation,
- mixture,
- modification,
- modifying,
- modulation,
- moodiness,
- motleyness,
- movement,
- multifariousness,
- multiplicity,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- mutability,
- mutation,
- nocturne,
- nonconformism,
- nonconformity,
- nonstandardization,
- nonuniformity,
- novelty,
- obliquity,
- odds,
- omnifariousness,
- omniformity,
- opposition,
- opus,
- orchestration,
- ornament,
- oscillation,
- otherness,
- overthrow,
- part,
- particularization,
- passage,
- pendulation,
- pererration,
- period,
- permutation,
- personalization,
- phrase,
- piece,
- pluralism,
- polymorphism,
- production,
- program music,
- qualification,
- radical change,
- raggedness,
- rambling,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- redesign,
- reform,
- reformation,
- refrain,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- resolution,
- response,
- restlessness,
- restructuring,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- ricercar,
- ritornello,
- score,
- section,
- seesawing,
- segregation,
- separateness,
- separation,
- severalization,
- severance,
- shapeshifter,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- shuffling,
- skew,
- slant,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- specialization,
- stanza,
- statement,
- strain,
- straying,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- sudden change,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- switch,
- tack,
- tailpiece,
- teeter-tottering,
- teetering,
- theme and variations,
- total change,
- tottering,
- transition,
- trio,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- turning,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- twist,
- uncertainty,
- unconformism,
- unconformity,
- undependability,
- unfixedness,
- unlikeness,
- unorthodoxy,
- unpredictability,
- unreliability,
- unsettledness,
- unstableness,
- unsteadfastness,
- unsteadiness,
- upheaval,
- vacillation,
- variability,
- variance,
- variegation,
- variety,
- variousness,
- varying,
- veer,
- versatility,
- verse,
- vicissitude,
- violent change,
- wandering,
- wantonness,
- warp,
- wavering,
- waywardness,
- whimsicality,
- work,
- worsening,
- yaw,
- zigzag