variant

n.

（词等的）变体，（字音的）转讹；[生]变种，变异体；变形，变量，转化；[统]变式

adj.

不同的，相异的，不一致的；多样的；变异的；易变的，不定的

复数：variants

1. Allophone is a phonetic variant of a phoneme.
   音位变体就是音位的语音变异。
2. The story has many variants.
   这个故事有很多说法。

1. One kind of elemental atoms and all other elemental atoms are variant.
   一种元素的原子与所有其它元素的原子是不同的。
2. Working function is variant from request of boss.
   工作职责与上司的要求不一致。

Efficient variant of the ICP algorithm
A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK.
Variant of transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene confers risk of type 2 diabetes.
A new variant of glycoprotein CD44 confers metastatic potential to rat carcinoma cells.
Complement factor H variant increases the risk of age-related macular degeneration
BI-CGSTAB: a fast and smoothly converging variant of BI-CG for the solution of nonsymmetric linear systems
Bi-CGSTAB: A fast and smoothly converging variant of Bi-CG for the solution of nonsymmetric linear systems, SIAM J
COX-3, a cyclooxygenase-1 variant inhibited by acetaminophen and other analgesic/antipyretic drugs: Cloning, structure, and expression
A genome-wide association scan of tag SNPs identifies a susceptibility variant for colorectal cancer at 8q24.21.
A genome-wide association scan of nonsynonymous SNPs identifies a susceptibility variant for Crohn disease in ATG16L1