"variant reading" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "variant readings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "variant reading (plural variant readings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Armenian terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text."
      ],
      "id": "en-variant_reading-en-noun-Tic4WLuI",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(textual criticism) Any of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "varia lectio"
        },
        {
          "word": "vl"
        },
        {
          "word": "VR"
        },
        {
          "word": "various reading"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences",
        "textual-criticism"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "tarəntʻercʻvac",
          "sense": "any of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text",
          "word": "տարընթերցված"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "any of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text",
          "word": "Lesart"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "raznočténije",
          "sense": "any of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text",
          "word": "разночте́ние"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "variant reading"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "variant readings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "variant reading (plural variant readings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Armenian terms with redundant script codes",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(textual criticism) Any of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences",
        "textual-criticism"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "varia lectio"
    },
    {
      "word": "vl"
    },
    {
      "word": "VR"
    },
    {
      "word": "various reading"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "tarəntʻercʻvac",
      "sense": "any of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text",
      "word": "տարընթերցված"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "any of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text",
      "word": "Lesart"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "raznočténije",
      "sense": "any of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text",
      "word": "разночте́ние"
    }
  ],
  "word": "variant reading"
}