variable

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  1. adjective Likely to change or vary; subject to variation; changeable.
  2. adjective Inconstant; fickle.
  3. adjective Biology Tending to deviate, as from a normal or recognized type; aberrant.
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  • This substitution of a constant for a variable is the process of applying logic. —  My Philosophical Development
  • A couple things to note about line 5 above: (a) the variable is actually being declared —  Learning jQuery
  • Even when strong statistical evidence indicates that a variable is an independent risk factor for an outcome, this does not necessarily indicate that the risk factor causally contributes to the outcome. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • If you want to disable the Utc timezone warning you will have to run the following mysql statement (this will just rename the variable, and not remove it completely): —  MDLog:/sysadmin
  • There are some governments who issued a hybrid muni known as a variable-rate demand note.
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  1. from French variable = Spanish variable = Portuguese variavel = Italian variabile, from Late Latin variabilis, changeable, from Latin variare, change: see vary.
 

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