variable
Meanings
Adjective
- Able to vary or be varied.
- Likely to vary.
- Marked by diversity or difference.
- Having no fixed quantitative value.
- Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
Noun
- Something that is variable.
- Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
- A symbol representing a variable.
- A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
- A variable star.
- A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
- Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
Related
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Narrower meaning words
- bound variable
- categorical variable
- continuous variable
- dependent variable
- discrete variable
- flow variable
- free variable
- independent variable
- instance variable
- interval variable
- member variable
- metasyntactic variable
- nominal variable
- ordinal variable
- ratio variable
- stock variable
- variable variable
Origin
- Borrowed into Middle English in the 14th century from Old French variable, from Latin variare, from varius.
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