Phrase Hound found 90 phrases and 26 compound words that contain variable. The most common are listed below. Open variable in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 90
- environment variableA variable used to configure the operating system environment.
- random variableA quantity whose value is random and to which a probability distribution is assigned, such as the possible outcome of a roll of a dice.
- dependent variableIn an equation, the variable whose value depends on one or more variables in the equation.
- independent variableIn an equation, any variable whose value is not dependent on any other in the equation.
- variable starAny star whose brightness varies.
- free variableA variable that is not bound to a storage location.
- variable costA cost that changes with the change in volume of activity of an organization.
- bound variableA variable that is associated with a value, and therefore a variable that has an allocated storage location. If the programming language implements a representation of a canonical unknown value, infinity, etc., the value bound to the …
- Variable rate
- dummy variableA binary variable that takes a value of 0 or 1 to indicate which category an individual falls into.
- Local variable
- Global variable
- class variableA member variable that is associated with a class of which a single copy exists.
- control variableA factor that is held constant in a series of experiments in which other factors are varied
- member variableA variable that is associated with each instance of a class and can be accessed from all its methods.
- variable costsplural of variable cost: A cost that changes with the change in volume of activity of an organization.
- state variableA variable that describes the state of a dynamical system.
- instance variableA member variable that is associated with a class for which each object of the class has a separate copy.
- variable fontA digital font whose design features can be freely adjusted in a cline via the manipulation of various axes, such as the "weight axis" or "height axis".
- continuous variableA variable that has a continuous distribution function, such as temperature.
- cluster variablean RR Lyrae variable; a type of variable star commonly (but not exclusively) found in globular clusters
- hidden variableAny parameter that would supplement quantum mechanics so as to make it like classical mechanics; local hidden variables have been proved to be inconsistent with quantum mechanics.
- Boolean variableAny variable, from the domain of Boolean algebra, having one of only two values
- interval variableAn ordinal variable with the additional property that the magnitudes of the differences between two values are meaningful.
- discrete variableA variable that takes values from a finite or countable set, such as the number of legs of an animal.
Compound words 26
- variabilityThe state or characteristic of being variable.
- avaran animation variable
- variadicTaking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.
- varactorA solid-state diode whose capacitance varies with the applied voltage.
- varistorAn electronic component having a variable resistance; used to protect circuits against power surges.
- metavariableA symbol or string of symbols belonging to a metalanguage and standing for elements of some object language.
- bivariableHaving two independent variables
- intervariableBetween variables.
- covariablecovariate
- cryptovariableThe key used for encryption and decryption.