Definition of variable

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Variable (a.) Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity..

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Alterableness :: Alterableness (n.) The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.
Shifting :: Shifting (a.) Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles..
Inconstant :: Inconstant (a.) Not constant; not stable or uniform; subject to change of character, appearance, opinion, inclination, or purpose, etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; -- said of persons or things; as, inconstant in love or friendship..
Babbitt Metal :: Babbitt metal () A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction..
Equal :: Equal (a.) Not variable; equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement..
Equicrescent :: Equicrescent (a.) Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable..
Dextrin :: Dextrin (n.) A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained from starch by the action of heat, acids, or diastase. It is of somewhat variable composition, containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar. It is so named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right; -- called also British gum, Alsace gum, gommelin, leiocome, etc. See Achroodextrin, and Ery
Uniform :: Uniform (a.) Having always the same form, manner, or degree; not varying or variable; unchanging; consistent; equable; homogenous; as, the dress of the Asiatics has been uniform from early ages; the temperature is uniform; a stratum of uniform clay..
Heterocera :: Heterocera (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennae variable in form..
Moonish :: Moonish (a.) Like the moon; variable.
Fitful :: Fitful (a.) Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
Invariability :: Invariability (n.) The quality of being invariable; invariableness; constancy; uniformity.
Erythema :: Erythema (n.) A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size..
Quantic :: Quantic (n.) A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables, in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables, and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further called binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the quantic / is a binary cubic..
Constant :: Constant (n.) That which is not subject to change; that which is invariable.
Necessitarianism :: Necessitarianism (n.) The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism..
Constant :: Constant (n.) A quantity that does not change its value; -- used in countradistinction to variable.
Invariable :: Invariable (n.) An invariable quantity; a constant.
Facient :: Facient (n.) One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
Inconsistency :: Inconsistency (n.) Want of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness.
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