Look up: Variable

1. Variable
   A value determined within the context of a model. Also called endogenous variable.
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2. Variable
   A characteristic that may assume more than one set of values to which a numerical measure can be assigned, for example, income, age, weight.
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3. Variable
   A quantity able to assume different numerical values.
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4. Variable
   A dimension along which an object, individual or group may be categorized, such as income or height, allowing specific comparisons with others or over time.
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5. variable
   [adj] - liable to or capable of change 2. [adj] - (used of a device) designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied 3. [n] - something that is likely to vary 4. [n] - a symbol (like x or y) that is used in mathematical or logical expressions to represent a variable quantity 5. [n] - a quantity that can assume any of a set of values
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6. Variable
   a concept whose value changes from case to case
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7. Variable
   A measurement which can vary. For instance, height is a measurement which varies from person to person, as opposed to pi which does not vary from circle to circle; that is a constant.
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8. Variable
   has several meanings. A variable is something that can be observed, measured or calculated for every patient in a selected group. It may also apply to a quantity that has a range of possible values. Variable can also mean liable to change. It may also apply to something liable to vary from the established type or pattern. It also applies to something that can be varied but in a controlled way.
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9. Variable
   A letter that is used to represent a numerical quantity whose value may or may not yet be known and may or may not be constant. It may not even have a specific value, but rather be allowed to range over a set of possible values.
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10. variable
    Compare with independent variable and dependent variable. A quantity that can have many possible values. In designing experiments, variables that affect measurements must be identified and controlled. For example, an experiment that measures reaction rates must control temperature, because temperature is a variable that can change the rate of react…
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11. Variable
    An attribute or characteristics of a person or an object that takes on different values (i.e. that varies) within the population under investigation (e.g. age, weight, pulse rate)
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12. variable
    (programming) (Sometimes "var" /veir/ or /var/) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read it them. Each programming language has different rules about how variables can be named, typed, and used. Typically, a value is "assigned" to a variable in an assignment statement. The value is obta…
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13. variable
    A letter or symbol that stands for one or more numbers
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14. variable
    a language object that may take different values,one at a time Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • generally,any quantity which varies.More precisely,a variable in the mathematical sense,i.e.a quantity which may take any one of a specified set of values.It is convenient to apply the same word to denote non-measurable characteristics,e.g.`sex`is a variable…
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15. Variable
    Definition (keystage 2) A variable is something that changes. It is a quantity, which can take on different values. It is the opposite of a constant.
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16. Variable
    Definition (keystage 3) A quantity, represented by a letter or other symbol, whose size we do not know, or whose size can change sometimes.
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17. Variable
    Va"ri·a·ble adjective [ Latin variabilis : confer French variable .] 1. Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity. 2. Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable ; passi …
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18. Variable
    Va"ri·a·ble noun 1. That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change. 2. (Math.) 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 x ² - y ² = R ² , x and y are variables . 3.
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19. variable
    One of a battery of antigenicdeterminants expressed by a microorganismto elude immune detection. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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20. variable
    adjective (used of a device) designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied; `a variable capacitor`; `variable filters in front of the mercury xenon lights`
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21. variable
    adjective liable to or capable of change; `rainfall in the tropics is notoriously variable`; `variable winds`; `variable expenses`
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22. variable
    variable quantity noun a quantity that can assume any of a set of values
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23. variable
    noun a symbol (like x or y) that is used in mathematical or logical expressions to represent a variable quantity
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24. variable
    noun something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation; `the weather is one variable to be considered`
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25. Variable
    In computer science and mathematics, a `variable` (sometimes called an `object` or `identifier` in computer science) is a symbolic representation used to denote a quantity or expression. In mathematics, a variable often represents an `unknown` quantity that has the potential to change; in computer science, it represents a place where a quantity can be stored. Variables are often contrasted with constants, which are known and unchanging. The term...
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