variable🔊

Able to vary or be varied. +

Likely to vary. +

Marked by diversity or difference. +

(mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value.

(biology) Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type. +

Something that is variable. +

Something whose value may be dictated or discovered. +

(mathematics) A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values. +

(mathematics) A symbol representing a variable.

(programming) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.

(astronomy) A variable star.

(nautical) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.

(nautical) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.