variable
- Adjective. able to vary.
- Adjective. likely to vary.
- Adjective. marked by diversity or difference.
- Adjective. (mathematics) having no fixed quantitative value.
- Adjective. (biology) tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
- Noun. something that is variable.
- Noun. something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
- Noun. (mathematics) a quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
- Noun. (mathematics) a symbol representing a variable.
- Noun. (programming) a named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
- Noun. (astronomy) a variable star.
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