Definitions

1. 1.a literary work, film, painting, etc., that refers to and creatively transforms some popular theme, motif, or other work of art itself
2. 2.an object that refers to or is a variation of another
3. 3.variation (musical technique based on an altered repetition of a theme)
4. 4.pas seul, variation
5. 5.sequence with repetition
6. 6.partial permutation, sequence without repetition, variation, arrangement
7. 7.variation of the Moon (one of the principal perturbations in the motion of the Moon)
8. 8.insanity, madness