Variant may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Variant (magazine), a former British cultural magazine Variant cover, an issue of comic books with varying cover art Variant (novel), a novel by Robison Wells "Variant" (The Walking Dead), a 2022 television episode "The Variant", 2021 episode of the TV series Loki Sylvie (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a character who was originally referred to as the Variant "Variant", a fictional term in the Marvel Cinematic Universe pertaining to the multiverse
Gaming Chess variant, a game derived from, related to or similar to chess in at least one respect List of poker variants List of Tetris variants
Mathematics and computing Loop variant, a decreasing value ensuring that a loop in a computer programme terminates Variant (logic), a term or formula obtained from another one by consistently renaming all variables Variant symlinks, a symbolic link to a file that has a variable name embedded in it Variant type, in programming languages Z-variant, unicode characters that share the same etymology but have slightly different appearances
Computer security
In network security, varieties of computer worms are called variants.
Biology Allele, a variant of a gene In microbiology and virology, a variant, or 'genetic variant' is a subtype of a known microorganism.
Vehicles Volkswagen Variant, an air-cooled station wagon produced until the early 1980s TeST TST-5 Variant, a Czech aircraft design of the 1990s
Other uses Variant name (geography), a name for a geographic feature that is not in primary use Variant Chinese character, Chinese characters that can be used interchangeably Orthographical variant, a variant spelling of a botanical name Varyant, a road in İzmir, Turkey In an invitation to tender, a supplier response which in part offers a solution different from that specified by the buyer
See also Variety (disambiguation) Variation (disambiguation) Change (disambiguation) Variations on a Theme (disambiguation) Rate of change (disambiguation) Repetition (disambiguation) Variability (disambiguation) Variance