variable

  1. Adjective.  able to vary.
  2. Adjective.  likely to vary.
  3. Adjective.  marked by diversity or difference.
  4. Adjective.  (mathematics) having no fixed quantitative value.
  5. Adjective.  (biology) 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.
  8. Noun.  (mathematics) a quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
  9. Noun.  (mathematics) a symbol representing a variable.
  10. Noun.  (programming) a named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
  11. Noun.  (astronomy) a variable star.

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