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variableness Definition


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variable
adj
    1. Referring to something that varies or tends to vary; not steady or regular; changeable.
      Thesaurus: fickle, mutable, inconstant, unsteady, fitful, shifting, fluctuating, vacillating, volatile, labile.
    2. Referring to something that can be varied or altered.
noun
    1. A thing that can vary unpredictably in nature or degree.
    2. A factor which may change or be changed by another.
    3. math.
      In an algebraic expression or equation: a symbol, usually a letter, for which one or more quantities or values may be substituted, eg in the expression 3x, x is a variable.
    4. astron.
Derivative: variability
noun
    Derivative: variably
    adverb
      Etymology: 14c: French, from Latin variabilis, from variare to vary.



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