Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈvɛəɹ.i.ə.bl̩/
- (America, non-Mary-marry-merry) IPA: /ˈvæɹ.i.ə.bl̩/
- (America, Mary-marry-merry) IPA: /ˈvɛɹ.i.ə.bl̩/
variable
- Able to vary or be varied.
- variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity; a variable resistor
- Likely to vary.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
- Marked by diversity or difference.
- (mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value.
- (biology) Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
- (able to vary) alterable, flexible, changeable, mutable; see also Thesaurus:mutable
- (likely to vary) fickle, fluctuating, inconstant, shifting, unstable, unsteady; see also Thesaurus:unsteady or Thesaurus:changeable
- (marked by diversity or difference) varying; see also Thesaurus:heterogeneous
- (biology: tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type) aberrant
- (able to vary) constant, invariable, immutable, unalterable, unchangeable; see also Thesaurus:immutable
- (likely to vary) constant, invariable, immutable, unchangeable see also Thesaurus:steady or Thesaurus:changeless
- (marked by diversity or difference) unchanging; see also Thesaurus:homogeneous
- (mathematics: having no fixed quantitative value) constant, invariable
- French: variable
- German: variabel
- Italian: variabile, regolabile, flessiblie, modificabile
- Portuguese: variável
- Russian: переме́нный
- Spanish: variable
variable (plural variables)
- Something that is variable.
- Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
- There are several variables to consider here.
- (mathematics) A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
- (mathematics) A symbol representing a variable.
- (programming) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
- (astronomy) A variable star.
- (nautical) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
- (nautical, in the plural) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
- (something that is variable) changeable
- (something whose value may be dictated or discovered) parameter
- (mathematics: a quantity that may assume any one of a set of values) variable quantity; see also Thesaurus:variable
- (something that is variable) constant, invariable
- French: variable, paramètre
- German: Variable
- Italian: variabile
- Portuguese: variável
- Russian: неизве́стное
- French: variable, paramètre
- German: Variable, Parameter
- Italian: variabile, parametro
- Portuguese: variável
- Russian: переме́нная
- Spanish: variable
- French: variable, paramètre
- German: Variable, Symbol, Platzhalter, Variablensymbol,
- Portuguese: variável
- Russian: неизве́стная
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