variable

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 47.84 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Able to vary or be varied.

   variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity; a variable resistor

2. adjective Likely to vary.
3. adjective Marked by diversity or difference.
4. adjective Having no fixed quantitative value.
5. adjective Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
6. noun Something that is variable.
7. noun Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.

   There are several variables to consider here.

8. noun English Wikipedia has an article on:variable (mathematics)Wikipedia A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.

Similar words

varied versatile changeable adaptable shifting protean uncertain varying unsettled variable star

Often followed by

is in and costs that to of cost for

Word family

variabilities variability variableness variablenesses variables variably variance variant variants variation