variography

Etymology

From variograph + -y.

noun

  1. The production of variograms.
  2. Variant spelling, the process of creating manuscript variants.“I could not find a better solution than to produce comprehensive tables and to collect in them all relevant variographs for a single given term, including moreover some additional material — that way, the user of this book can hardly fail to see that the extractions of a term are due to variographies. […] let us further assume that the spelling of this name is līnū; so we go to section ‘L’, where ”