variation

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Just two months after appearing as the swaggering Kilgore in “Apocalypse Now,” Duvall offered a more intimate variation on a military man — essentially Kilgore without an actual war, just a domestic battlefield.

From Los Angeles Times

These statistical tools more accurately represent horizontal and vertical beam variations than simplified approaches used in earlier studies, leading to a clearer picture of how random pointing errors behave.

From Science Daily

These subtle variations can reveal how and where molecules were formed.

From Science Daily

A submarine captain with good knowledge of surrounding seas can use those variations to hide in open water.

From The Wall Street Journal

This behavioral flexibility showed up clearly in the data, with meows displaying much greater variation within the same individual cat.

From Science Daily