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What does the word variable mean?

    Part of speech: noun

  • That which varies or is liable to change.

    • Part of speech: noun

  • Variability.

    • Part of speech: adverb

  • Variably.

    • Part of speech: adjective

  • Varying; changeable.

Usage examples for variable

  1. These elements appear in as great a variety of size and proportion as do the variations of individual humanity, and each element is, moreover, variable according to the will or feeling of the individual. – Resonance in Singing and Speaking by Thomas Fillebrown
  2. Ye counterfayted Courters come with your fleinge brayne Expressed by these variable Garmentes that ye fynde. – The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Sebastian Brandt