Variable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Likely to change or vary; subject to variation; changeable.
  • adj. Inconstant; fickle.
  • adj. Biology Tending to deviate, as from a normal or recognized type; aberrant.
  • adj. Mathematics Having no fixed quantitative value.
  • n. Something that varies or is prone to variation.
  • n. Astronomy A variable star.
  • n. Mathematics A quantity capable of assuming any of a set of values.
  • n. Mathematics A symbol representing such a quantity. For example, in the expression a2 + b2 = c2, a, b, and c are variables.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. able to vary
  • adj. likely to vary
  • adj. marked by diversity or difference
  • adj. having no fixed quantitative value
  • adj. tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type
  • n. something that is variable
  • n. something whose value may be dictated or discovered
  • n. a quantity that may assume any one of a set of values
  • n. a symbol representing a variable
  • n. a named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them
  • n. a variable star
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable
  • adj. Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant
  • n. That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change.
  • n. A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity.
  • n.
  • n. A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
  • n. Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Apt to change; changing or altering in a physical sense; liable to change; changeable.
  • In botany and zoology, embracing many individuals and groups (varieties, subspecies, forms, states) which depart somewhat from the strict type: said of a species or, in a similar sense, of some particular character.
  • Liable to vary or change, in a moral sense; mutable; fickle; inconstant: as, variable moods.
  • Capable of being varied, altered, or changed; liable to change; alterable; in grammar, capable of inflection.
  • In mathematics, quantitatively indeterminate, and considered with reference to the various determinations of quantity that are possible in the case. See II.
  • In astronomy, changing in brightness
  • Synonyms and Wavering, unstable, vacillating, fluctuating, fitful.
  • n. That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject or liable to vary or change.
  • n. In mathematics, a quantity which is indeterminate, and is considered with reference to its different possible values; originally, a quantity capable of values continuously connected in one dimension, so that it could be conceived as running through them all in the course of time.
  • n. A shifting wind, as opposed to a trade-wind; hence, the variables, the intermediate region or belt between the northeast and the southeast trade-winds.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a star that varies noticeably in brightness
  • adj. (used of a device) designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied
  • n. something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation
  • adj. marked by diversity or difference
  • n. a symbol (like x or y) that is used in mathematical or logical expressions to represent a variable quantity
  • n. a quantity that can assume any of a set of values
  • adj. liable to or capable of change
  • Equivalent
    adaptable    varied    unsettled    versatile    uncertain    covariant    multivariate    shifting    protean    variant   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    thing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    inconstant    versatile    unsteady    wavering    mutable    fickle    changeable    changing    floating    capricious   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    invariable   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    parameter    input    data    specific    factor    constant    dynamic    current    vector    characteristic