VARIABLE
\vˈe͡əɹɪəbə͡l], \vˈeəɹɪəbəl], \v_ˈeə_ɹ_ɪ__ə_b_əl]\
Definitions of VARIABLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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marked by diversity or difference; "the varying angles of roof slope"; "nature is infinitely variable"
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a quantity that can assume any of a set of values
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something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation; "the weather is one variable to be considered"
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a star that varies noticeably in brightness
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(used of a device) designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied; "a variable capacitor"; "variable filters in front of the mercury xenon lights"
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liable to or capable of change; "rainfall in the tropics is notoriously variable"; "variable winds"; "variable expenses"
By Princeton University
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marked by diversity or difference; "the varying angles of roof slope"; "nature is infinitely variable"
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a quantity that can assume any of a set of values
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something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation; "the weather is one variable to be considered"
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a star that varies noticeably in brightness
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(used of a device) designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied; "a variable capacitor"; "variable filters in front of the mercury xenon lights"
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liable to or capable of change; "rainfall in the tropics is notoriously variable"; "variable winds"; "variable expenses"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.
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Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable.
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A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x2 - y2 = R2, x and y are variables.
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A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
By Oddity Software
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Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.
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Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable.
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A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x2 - y2 = R2, x and y are variables.
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A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
By Noah Webster.
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Changeable; as, a variable wind; inconstant; fickle; as, variable love.
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That which is subject to change; in mathematics, a quantity that may be given many values.
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Variably.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Variably.
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That may be varied: changeable: liable to change: unsteady.
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(math.) A quantity subject to continual increase or decrease: a quantity which may have an infinite number of values in the same expression.
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VARIABLENESS, VARIABILITY.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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That may vary or alter; changeable; susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; subject to continual increase or decrease.
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That which is variable, specially a quantity.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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