Definition of variable

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Variable (n.) 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 x2 - y2 = R2, x and y are variables..

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Quantic :: Quantic (n.) A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables, in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables, and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further called binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the quantic / is a binary cubic..
Facient :: Facient (n.) One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
Equicrescent :: Equicrescent (a.) Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable..
Constant :: Constant (n.) A quantity that does not change its value; -- used in countradistinction to variable.
Necessitarianism :: Necessitarianism (n.) The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism..
Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The integral used in obtaining the area bounded by a curve; hence, the definite integral of the product of any function of one variable into the differential of that variable..
Cam :: Cam (n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it..
Quartic :: Quartic (n.) A curve or surface whose equation is of the fourth degree in the variables.
Equable :: Equable (a.) Uniform in action or intensity; not variable or changing; -- said of the feelings or temper.
Fluxional :: Fluxional (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant..
Invariance :: Invariance (n.) The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions.
Inconstancy :: Inconstancy (n.) The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness.
Jubilee :: "Jubilee (n.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist..
Gradient :: Gradient (n.) The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient..
Protean :: Protean (a.) Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule..
Variableness :: Variableness (n.) The quality or state of being variable; variability.
Factorial :: Factorial (n.) A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials..
Equal :: Equal (a.) Not variable; equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement..
Metamorphic :: Metamorphic (a.) Subject to change; changeable; variable.
Fitful :: Fitful (a.) Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
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