variety

(noun)

A form of theatre made up of a variety of acts, including musical performances and sketch comedy. Variety shows were popular cheap amusements during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Related Terms

  • "the circuit"
  • vaudeville

Examples of variety in the following topics:

  • Variety

  • Agricultural Diversity

    • Each variety has been bred to thrive at particular elevations and soil and climate conditions.
    • Seed companies, which are the source of most crop varieties in developed countries, must continually breed new varieties to keep up with evolving pest organisms.
    • These same seed companies, however, have participated in the decline of the number of varieties available as they focus on selling fewer varieties in more areas of the world.
    • The ability to create new crop varieties relies on the diversity of varieties available and the accessibility of wild forms related to the crop plant.
    • These wild forms are often the source of new gene variants that can be bred with existing varieties to create varieties with new attributes.
  • Confidence Intervals

    • These sections show how to compute confidence intervals for a variety of parameters.
  • Dialect and Vocal Variety

    • Speakers may use many different English dialects to change the pitch, rate, volume, and use of pauses to achieve vocal variety.
    • A dialect is a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language speakers.
    • You achieve vocal variety by using any or all of the features of vocalics: the rate, pitch, volume and pauses you use to change the way you deliver your message.
    • Here are methods to help you create variety in your delivery:
    • Employ vocal variety to emphasize key points in your speech and use dialect to relate to your audience
  • Objective, constraints and alternatives

    • Economic agents have a variety of objectives.
    • There are a variety of objectives that an agent might have.
    • The constraints and objectives can be structured in a variety of ways.
  • Metal Exchange Reactions

    • Alternative methods of preparing a wide variety of organometallic compounds generally involve an exchange reaction in which a given metal is either moved to a new location or replaced by a new metal, which may include B, Al, Ti, V, Fe, Ni, Cu, Mo, Ru, Pd, Sn, Pt, Hg & Pb.
  • Providing National Security

    • National security is the protection of the state through a variety of means that include military might, economic power, and diplomacy.
    • National security, a concept which developed mainly in the United States after World War II, is the protection of the state and its citizens through a variety of means, including military might, economic power, diplomacy, and power projection.
    • There are a variety of governmental departments and agencies within the United States that are responsible for developing policies to ensure national security.
  • 3D Plots

    • Figure 1 shows a 3D scatter plot of the fat, non-sugar carbohydrates, and calories from a variety of cereal types.
    • A 3D scatter plot showing fat, non-sugar carbohydrates, and calories from a variety of cereal types
  • Ceramics in Mesopotamia

    • The invention of the potter's wheel in the fourth millennium BCE led to several stylistic shifts and varieties in form of Mesopotamian ceramics.
    • As the Akkadian Empire overtook the Sumerian city-states, ceramists continued to produce bowls, vases, jars, and other objects in a variety of shapes and sizes.
    • The Third Ur Dynasty, better known as Ur III, witnessed the continuation of unpainted ceramic vessels that took a variety of forms.
    • Pottery produced during the "Old" Babylonian period shows a return to painted abstract designs and increased variety in forms.
  • Varieties of Line

    • There are six important varieties of line: actual, implied, straight, expressive, contour, and hatch lines.
    • Identify the basic varieties of line which are used in works of art.
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