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Variable   /vˈɛriəbəl/   Listen
Variable

noun
1.
Something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation.
2.
A quantity that can assume any of a set of values.  Synonym: variable quantity.
3.
A star that varies noticeably in brightness.  Synonym: variable star.
4.
A symbol (like x or y) that is used in mathematical or logical expressions to represent a variable quantity.
adjective
1.
Liable to or capable of change.  "Variable winds" , "Variable expenses"
2.
Marked by diversity or difference.  Synonym: varying.  "Nature is infinitely variable"
3.
(used of a device) designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied.  "Variable filters in front of the mercury xenon lights"



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"Variable" Quotes from Famous Books



... 13th, 14th, and 15th of June, the barometer slowly fell, without an attempt to rise in the slightest degree, and the weather became variable, hovering between rain and wind or storm. The breeze strengthened considerably, and changed to south-westerly. It was a head-wind for the Dream, and the waves had now increased enormously, and lifted ...
— Godfrey Morgan - A Californian Mystery • Jules Verne
... scheme, has denied that they are free to vote as faddists; but he still holds that they are free to vote on any basis if only they form one-sixth to one-twelfth of an electorate. Thus the amount of freedom is variable and a matter of opinion. Now, we altogether deny that electors should be given the opportunity to subordinate the national interests to factious interests. Just as the faddist argument is fatal to Mr. Hare's original scheme, so the splitting up into factions is fatal ...
— Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government • T. R. Ashworth and H. P. C. Ashworth
... That is a way you keen lawyers have. Very well; I shall be an honest witness, even against myself. That I wasn't up with the lark this morning goes without saying. The larks that I know much about are on the wing after dinner in the evening. The forenoon is a variable sort of affair with many people. Literally I suppose it ends at 12 M., but with me it is rounded off by lunch, and the time of that event depends largely upon the kitchen divinity that we can lure to this remote and desolate ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... funny to take their husbands' hats, put their feet in them, and, thus shod, to run a steeplechase across the room. Meantime Madame de la Roche-Jagan felt the General's pulse frequently, and found it variable. ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... perceive that two-ninths of the atmosphere by weight is a highly magnetic body, subject to great changes in its magnetic character, by variations in its temperature and condensation or rarefaction, without being persuaded that it has much to do with the variable disposition of the magnetic forces upon ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various


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