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Contrast vs Variation - What's the difference?

contrast | variation |

As nouns the difference between contrast and variation

is that contrast is a difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable while variation is the act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.

As a verb contrast

is to set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.

contrast

English

Noun

  • (label) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
  • #(label) The degree of this difference.
  • #:
  • #(label) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
  • (label) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
  • :
  • *
  • *:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast : Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
  • Antithesis.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
  • To form a contrast.
    • Foreground and background strongly contrast .
  • * Lyell
    • The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.

    Derived terms

    * contrasting

    See also

    * compare English heteronyms

    variation

    English

    (wikipedia variation)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
    • , title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
  • A related but distinct thing.
  • (nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north. Also called magnetic declination.
  • (board games) A line of play that differs from the original.
  • (music) A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, counterpoint or orchestration; but with some invariant characteristic, e.g. a ground bass.

    • Derived terms

    * magnetic variation * theme and variations

    Related terms

    * vary * variant

    References

    * US FM 55-501 MARINE CREWMAN’S HANDBOOK; 1 December 1999 * * ----