| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | product variant | 产品变型 (A configuration of a product master) |
| comp., MS | theme variant | 主题变体 (One of the variations of a theme that make up a theme family) |
| comp., MS | variant configuration technology | 变型配置技术 (A method of modeling product masters and searching for product variant configurations) |
| comp., MS | Variant data type | 变量数据类型 (The default data type for variables that don't have type-declaration characters when a Deftype statement isn't in effect. A Variant can store numeric, string, date/time, Null, or Empty data) |
| comp., MS | variant expression | 变量表达式 (Any expression that can evaluate to numeric, string, or date data, as well as the special values Empty and Null) |