Phrase Hound found 56 phrases and 9 compound words that contain variables. The most common are listed below. Open variables in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 56
- environment variablesplural of environment variable: A variable used to configure the operating system environment.
- random variablesplural of random variable: A quantity whose value is random and to which a probability distribution is assigned, such as the possible outcome of a roll of a dice.
- independent variablesplural of independent variable: In an equation, any variable whose value is not dependent on any other in the equation.
- Global variables
- state variablesplural of state variable: A variable that describes the state of a dynamical system.
- dependent variablesplural of dependent variable: In an equation, the variable whose value depends on one or more variables in the equation.
- Local variables
- dummy variablesplural of dummy variable: A binary variable that takes a value of 0 or 1 to indicate which category an individual falls into.
- control variablesplural of control variable: A factor that is held constant in a series of experiments in which other factors are varied
- Explanatory variables
- instance variablesplural of instance variable: A member variable that is associated with a class for which each object of the class has a separate copy.
- free variablesplural of free variable: A variable that is not bound to a storage location.
- hidden variablesplural of hidden variable: Any 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.
- pattern variablesplural of pattern variable: Any of a set of contrasting pairs of characteristics said to be associated with various kinds of social interaction: affectivity – affective neutrality; self-orientation – collectivity-orientation; universalism …
- bound variablesplural of bound variable: A 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 …
- continuous variablesplural of continuous variable: A variable that has a continuous distribution function, such as temperature.
- discrete variablesplural of discrete variable: A variable that takes values from a finite or countable set, such as the number of legs of an animal.
- latent variablesplural of latent variable: A variable that is not directly measured but is inferred by means of a mathematical model from one or more directly observed variables.
- Mira variablesplural of Mira variable: Any of a class of pulsating variable stars characterized by very red colours, pulsation periods longer than 100 days, and amplitudes greater than one magnitude in infrared and 2.5 magnitude at visual wavelengths.
- categorical variablesplural of categorical variable: A nominal variable.
- across variablesplural of across variable: A variable whose value is determined by measuring a difference of the values at two extreme points of an element; thus voltage is a difference in two levels of potential.
- class variablesplural of class variable: A member variable that is associated with a class of which a single copy exists.
- flow variablesplural of flow variable: A variable whose value depends on a period of time rather than an instant, example being the gross domestic product.
- member variablesplural of member variable: A variable that is associated with each instance of a class and can be accessed from all its methods.
- motor variablesplural of motor variable: A variable that can be a split-complex number.
Compound words 9
- hypervariablesplural of hypervariable: Having a high degree of variability.
- supervariablesplural of supervariable
- cryptovariablesplural of cryptovariable: The key used for encryption and decryption.
- eigenvariablesplural of eigenvariable: A kind of term in natural deduction.
- macrovariablesplural of macrovariable: A variable that may be modified by or within a macro
- metavariablesplural of metavariable: A symbol or string of symbols belonging to a metalanguage and standing for elements of some object language.
- microvariablesplural of microvariable: Something that possesses microvariability
- pseudovariablesplural of pseudovariable: A named value that acts like a variable but is not a true variable.
- subvariablesplural of subvariable: A subset of a variable