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variables

[vair-ee-uh-buhl]

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adjective

apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.

capable of being varied or changed; alterable: a variable time limit for completion of a book.

inconstant; fickle: a variable lover.

having much variation or diversity.

Biology. deviating from the usual type, as a species or a specific character.

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Astronomy. (of a star) changing in brightness.

Meteorology. (of wind) tending to change in direction.

Mathematics. having the nature or characteristics of a variable.

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noun

something that may or does vary; a variable feature or factor.

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Mathematics, Computers.

a quantity or function that may assume any given value or set of values.

a symbol that represents this.

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Logic. (in the functional calculus) a symbol for an unspecified member of a class of things or statements. Compare bound variable, free variable.

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Astronomy. variable star.

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Meteorology.

a shifting wind, especially as distinguished from a trade wind.

variables, doldrums (def. 2a).

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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

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Origin:
1350–1400; late Middle English < Latin variābilis, equivalent to vari(us) various + -ābilis -able

Related forms

var·i·a·bil·i·ty, var·i·a·ble·ness, noun

var·i·a·bly, adverb

hy·per·var·i·a·bil·i·ty, noun

hy·per·var·i·a·ble, adjective

hy·per·var·i·a·b·ly, adverb

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non·var·i·a·bil·i·ty, noun

non·var·i·a·ble, adjective

non·var·i·a·ble·ness, noun

non·var·i·a·b·ly, adverb

un·var·i·a·ble, adjective

un·var·i·a·ble·ness, noun

un·var·i·a·b·ly, adverb

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Can be confused: 1. boundary, limit, parameter, variable (see synonym note at boundary; see usage note at parameter); 2. variable, variant.

Synonyms
3. vacillating, wavering, fluctuating, unsteady, mercurial.

Antonyms
1, 3. constant.

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Example Sentences

In the future, experts say, models need to be opened up to accommodate more variables and more dimensions of uncertainty.

Keep in mind that rates will be affected by a number of variables such as accidents, traffic tickets.

We can't rely on readily available information to make this conclusion, less so when the two variables are not closely connected.

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In the future, experts say, models need to be opened up to accommodate more variables and more dimensions of uncertainty.

Keep in mind that rates will be affected by a number of variables such as accidents, traffic tickets.

We can't rely on readily available information to make this conclusion, less so when the two variables are not closely connected.

Have them determine which variables they may want to increase/decrease to improve the situation.

When modeling climate, scientists must account for a large number of variables.

There were no technical graphs of data points or tables of measured variables.

Scale down the variables to establish a soothing atmosphere, and stick to your budget.

Galenson decided to test the robustness of his conclusions about artists' life cycles by looking at variables other than price.

The principles may be familiar, but in practice the variables are tricky, and past behavior.

What comes to mind when there are strange errors is to check to see how variables are dimensioned in.

Financial crises and deep recessions can affect these variables in several ways.

Using many variables avoids skews that can occur within a smaller set of variables.

Of course, many other variables are involved in determining causal relations between diet and health.

The value of a work of art is a function of many variables.

He'll be tweaking the variables in his computational model and checking and rechecking his hypotheses.

It involves manipulating and eliminating variables to support or nullify a hypothesis.

How countries fare in terms of their rankings on the two variables can diverge considerably.

But as he admitted later, in penitent memoirs and interviews, he had not understood the variables of war itself.

The researchers scored each of the variables on a one to ten scale, combined the numbers, and mapped the results.

It includes all the relevant variables of sensory, emotional, and intensity.

Another adds predicted sea level rise to those variables.

The stuff left over tells you what to do with the remaining two variables.

Experiments that eliminate variables are called control experiments.

I've been trying to understand how and why watermelon people are created and have discovered a few common variables.

However there was no scenario that did that for both variables in all regions.

Also discuss the variables that could impact the survey.

So complexity is the norm and the possible combinations of variables exceeds even the brightest of minds.

It's useful because road tests inevitably have variables that affect a car's performance.

These problems are fiendishly complicated systems, often with thousands of variables.

These variables aren't new and have continued to put pressure on colleges and families.

There is too much variables in nature that it can be contained in theory.

Such variables keep deepwater drilling costs high, but so does the hardware involved.

The lower contrast is not a valid conclusion with so many other relevant variables not held constant.

No unexpected variables are allowed to interfere with the crystal's growth.

Plenty of variables determine what makes the kind of peach that drenches your.

Colleges have both proposed voluntary accountability systems that aim to measure student achievement across many variables.

And real economic variables are improving across the board.

Managed smartly, adjustments to all these variables can help reduce your oil energy.

Chances are good, however, that our estimates of both these variables will be wrong.

The formula for determining rates factors in variables such as the size of the.

He said stress in life is directly related to the variables in your control versus the variables out of your control.

Along with hard work and academic qualifications there's luck, timing, and a million other variables that no one can control.

Aether variables are extremely common in my own field of economics.

Most of the work involves animals in captivity because so many variables are encountered in the wild.

The number of environmental variables with the potential to influence reproductive behaviour is simply too large.

It also allows you to manipulate certain variables and witness how those changes would effect the universe.

Needless to say, not every relationship between variables is as straightforward as those above.

T-statistics will reveal the significance of the coefficients on each of the dummy variables.

Many of the variables the authors expected would lead to more award-winning ads-having sufficient.

The researchers took into consideration variables such as the education, size, weight and age of the would-be moms.

It's hard because reality is complicated, shaped by a surreal excess of variables.

Adjusting the variables of any player's statistics can drastically alter his season.

Even a biological study must control for behaviorial variables.

We have cheap food, but it's dependent on so many variables.

Ethical robots, making decisions based on pre-defined ethical variables are not moral agents.

The key thing to remember is to not make variables that appear both in the function and outside the function.

Her process is largely improvisational and embraces the random variables many artists work hard.

It will reinforce what is working and give you insight on what your iffiest variables are.

Computers are good at determining how myriad variables might affect events.

There are many variables that connects us to each other, so as to feel and experience what the.

Notice that there are two variables and two equations.

Petersburg, she worked through the solutions for the equations, which show how a number of variables relate in time and space.

Research in this area reveals that attention to both on-the job and off-the-job variables is crucial.

The main variables are the size of their funds and the degree of specialisation.

Portion control, lifestyle and exercise are recognized variables too.

Even the marijuana itself has certain variables to take into account.

In a more technical sense, if you put both variables into a regression equation.

College leaders can only make educated guesses with respect to static and rate-of-change variables.

PS, many variables go into determining trade balances.

Food habits play a significant effect on those variables.

Demographics factors get into our model through proxy variables.

Other say it's hooey, with too many subtle variables to make it useful.

While the variables affecting performance are myriad, one must have something--other than a friendly suit--to guide these choices.

Of all the possible explanatory variables for road deaths, cameras are probably well down the list.

The medical field is awash in contingencies-every patient his or her own universe of variables.

But so far the software doesn't know what to look for amid this onslaught of variables.

The variables were too numerous, the candidates' behavior inconsistent.

If your concepts are too closely allied, you're going to have the same problem that someone with collinear variables has.

Maybe it has got its own time to ripe given how complex and multiple major variables are.

Dimensions should be the number of variables required to span the space.

There are far too many uncontrolled variables contributing to instructor preference other than gender.

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

variable

late 14c., of persons, from O.Fr. variable, from L. variabilis "changeable," from variare "to change" (see vary). Of weather, seasons, etc., attested from late 15c.; of stars, from 1788. The noun meaning "quantity that can vary in value" first recorded 1816, from the adj.

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

variable var·i·a·ble (vâr'ē-ə-bəl, vār'-)
adj.

Likely to change or vary; subject to variation; changeable.
Tending to deviate, as from a normal or recognized type; aberrant.
Having no fixed quantitative value.

Something that varies or that is prone to variation.
A quantity that is capable of assuming any of a set of values.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

variable

(vâr'ē-ə-bəl) Pronunciation Key

A mathematical quantity capable of assuming any of a set of values, such as x in the expression 3x + 2.
A factor or condition that is subject to change, especially one that is allowed to change in a scientific experiment to test a hypothesis. See more at control.

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"The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true."

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