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Governor :: Governor (n.) A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable..

Inconstant :: Inconstant (a.) Not constant; not stable or uniform; subject to change of character, appearance, opinion, inclination, or purpose, etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; -- said of persons or things; as, inconstant in love or friendship..

Decrement :: Decrement (n.) The quantity by which a variable is diminished.

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..

Covariant :: Covariant (n.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic..

Constant :: Constant (v. t.) Remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, force, law, etc..

Ligroin :: Ligroin (n.) A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. It is a complex and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below 170¡ Fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. It is used as a solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for illumination in special lamps..

Moonish :: Moonish (a.) Like the moon; variable.

Variable :: Variable (a.) Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity..

Protean :: Protean (a.) Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule..

Increment :: Increment (n.) The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased..

Variableness :: Variableness (n.) The quality or state of being variable; variability.

Law :: Law (n.) In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as the change of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence..

Invariance :: Invariance (n.) The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions.

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below)..

Erythema :: Erythema (n.) A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size..

Brass :: Brass (n.) An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals..

Mira :: Mira (n.) A remarkable variable star in the constellation Cetus (/ Ceti).

Fluent :: Fluent (n.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral..

Uncertain :: Uncertain (a.) Irresolute; inconsonant; variable; untrustworthy; as, an uncertain person; an uncertain breeze..

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