These are the meanings of the letters VICTORIANA when you unscramble them.
- Covariant (n.)
A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.
- Variation (n.)
Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc.
- Variation (n.)
Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change.
- Variation (n.)
One of the different arrangements which can be made of any number of quantities taking a certain number of them together.
- Variation (n.)
Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the essential features of the original shall still preserve their identity.
- Variation (n.)
The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.
- vicariant (unknown)
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