Variant

Variant may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

 * Variant (magazine), British cultural magazine since 1984
 * Variant cover, of issue of comic books with varying cover art
 * Variant (novel), by Robison Wells

In 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

In mathematics and computing

 * 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

In biology

 * Allele, a variant of a gene
 * Variant of uncertain significance
 * (Genetic) variant (biology), a microorganism not distinct enough to be a separate strain

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