Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of variable is as below...

Constant :: Constant (v. t.) Remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, force, law, etc..

Quadric :: Quadric (n.) A surface whose equation in three variables is of the second degree. Spheres, spheroids, ellipsoids, paraboloids, hyperboloids, also cones and cylinders with circular bases, are quadrics..

Differential :: Differential (n.) An increment, usually an indefinitely small one, which is given to a variable quantity..

Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve..

Covariant :: Covariant (n.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic..

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..

Gradient :: Gradient (n.) The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient..

Inconstancy :: Inconstancy (n.) The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness.

Eliminant :: Eliminant (n.) The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also resultant.

Equicrescent :: Equicrescent (a.) Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable..

Invariable :: Invariable (n.) An invariable quantity; a constant.

Decrement :: Decrement (n.) The quantity by which a variable is diminished.

Flux :: Flux (n.) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

Constant :: Constant (n.) That which is not subject to change; that which is invariable.

Variableness :: Variableness (n.) The quality or state of being variable; variability.

Ligroin :: Ligroin (n.) A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. It is a complex and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below 170¡ Fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. It is used as a solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for illumination in special lamps..

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..

Fluent :: Fluent (n.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral..

Variable :: Variable (n.) A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x2 - y2 = R2, x and y are variables..

Variable :: Variable (n.) That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change..

Random Fonts

Most Popular