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variable
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In elementary mathematics , a variable is an alphabetic character representing a number, called the value of the variable, which is either arbitrary or not fully specified or unknown. Making algebraic computations with variables as if they were explicit ...
WordNet
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adj. liable to or capable of change; "rainfall in the tropics is notoriously variable"; "variable winds"; "variable expenses" [ant: invariable ] marked by diversity or difference; "the varying angles of roof slope"; "nature is infinitely variable" [syn: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Able to vary. 2 Likely to vary. 3 Marked by diversity or difference. 4 (context mathematics English) Having no fixed quantitative value. 5 (context biology English) Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type. n. 1 Something that is #Adjective. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Variable \Va"ri*a*ble\, a. [L. variabilis: cf. F. variable.] Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity. Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; ...
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Chapter VII Instinct Instincts comparable with habits, but different in their origin -- Instincts graduated -- Aphides and ants -- Instincts variable -- Domestic instincts, their origin -- Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees -- Slave-making ants -- Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct - - Difficulties on the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts -- Neuter or sterile insects -- Summary.
And yet, there was nothing surprising in that, for everything is variable in the austral seas.
There are three key variables that will define this struggle, variables that act in the realm between the common and the singular, between the axiomatic of command and the self-identification of the subject, and between the production of subjectivity by power and the autonomous resistance of the subjects themselves.
My previous tests have been made too late to learn the exact rate of coagulation, which may be variable.
It contains five million three hundred thousand cryotrons and is capable of dealing simultaneously with over one hundred thousand variables.
The one thing which everywhere is variable and evanescent, is evil, or the imperfect adjustment of the creature with the works and designs of the Creator.
It was obviously encrypted, but what sort of a code: logarithmic, exponential, random, or variable sequential?
The variable opulence of some of her new friends caused a forest of ambitious ideas to spring up in the mind of Mademoiselle Mimi, who up until then had only had modest tastes, and was content with the necessaries of life that Rodolphe did his best to procure for her.
Through the use of phenothiazine spansules he realized, which act over a period of hours at a variable rate.
VARIABLE BALLAST TANKS Tanks used to hold seawater for added weight, or conversely, seawater tanks that can be pumped out or blown out to lighten the ship.
Through the social development of capital, the mechanisms of modern sovereignty-the processes of coding, overcoding, and recoding that imposed a transcendent order over a bounded and segmented social terrain-are progressively replaced by an axiomatic: that is, a set of equations and relationships that determines and combines variables and coefficients immediately and equally across various terrains without reference to prior and fixed definitions or terms.
This is a subacute or chronic form of inflammation of the mucous membrane of the bronchial tubes, of a very persistent character and variable intensity.
To accept uploading, that, too, is wrong in her mind: She will not admit her identity is a variable, not a constant.
To accept uploading, that, too, is wrong in her mind: she will not admit her identity is a variable, not a constant.
The action of these vortices is proved to be of variable force, whether arising from atmospheric conditions, or due to an increased activity of the ethereal medium throughout the whole system, is at present immaterial.