DEFINITION of 'Eurozone'. A geographic and economic region that consists of all the European Union countries that have fully incorporated the euro as their national currency. Also referred to as euroland.
variation. n. 1. the act, process, condition, or result of changing or varying; diversity. 2. an instance of varying or the amount, rate, or degree of such change. 3. something that differs from a standard or convention.arâ¢iâ¢aâ¢tion. 1. the act or process of varying: prices subject to variation. 2. an instance of this: a variation in quality. 3. amount of change: a temperature variation of 20Â°. 4. a different form of something.
The term linguistic variation (or simply variation) refers to regional, social, or contextual differences in the ways that a particular language is used. Variation between languages, dialects, and speakers is known as interspeaker variation. Variation within the language of a single speaker is called intraspeaker variation. Since the rise of sociolinguistics in the 1960s, interest in linguistic variation (also called linguistic variability) has developed rapidly.