(economics) The measure of how much money a consumer would pay before a price increase, to avoid the price increase.

(journalism, literature) A form of journalese characterized by the overuse of synonyms for fear of repeating a word.

(statistics) the proportion of cases not in the mode

(calculus) The form of calculus that deals with the maxima and minima of definite integrals of functions of many variables.

(military, nautical, navigation) In navigation, at a given place and time, the horizontal angle between the true north and magnetic north measured east or west according to whether magnetic north lies east or west of true north.

plural of antigenic variation

(computing, typography) A metacharacter in Unicode that selects one of a set of semantically equivalent glyphs.

plural of variation selector

A compass of delicate construction, used in observations on the variations of the needle.

plural of variation ratio