Variable

['veərɪəb(ə)l] or ['vɛrɪəbl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a quantity that can assume any of a set of values.

(noun.) a symbol (like x or y) that is used in mathematical or logical expressions to represent a variable quantity.

(noun.) something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation; 'the weather is one variable to be considered'.

(adj.) (used of a device) designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied; 'a variable capacitor'; 'variable filters in front of the mercury xenon lights' .

(adj.) liable to or capable of change; 'rainfall in the tropics is notoriously variable'; 'variable winds'; 'variable expenses' .

編輯:希娜--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

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

(a.) Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable.

(n.) That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change.

(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.

(n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.

(n.) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.

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同義詞及近義詞：

a. [1]. Changeable, mutable.[2]. Inconstant, unsteady, fickle, vacillating, wavering, fluctuating, fitful, undecided.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Changeable, mutable, fickle, capricious, wavering, unsteady, inconstant,shifting

ANT:Unchanging, unchangeable, immutable, constant, firm, true, fast, stanch,unwavering, steady, unalterable, invariable

校對:索尼亚

解釋/意思:

adj. that may be varied: changeable: liable to change: unsteady: (bot. zool.) of a species embracing many individuals and groups departing more or less from the strict type: (math.) quantitatively indeterminate: (astron.) changing in brightness.—n. (math.) a quantity subject to continual increase or decrease: a quantity which may have an infinite number of values in the same expression: a shifting wind.—ns. Variabil′ity (biol.) tendency to depart in any direction from the mean character of the species; Vā′riableness.—adv. Vā′riably.—v.t. Vā′riate to vary.—v.i. to change.—adj. Vā′riated varied diversified: varriated.—n. Variā′tion a varying: a change: change from one to another: successive change: the extent to which a thing varies: (gram.) change of termination: (mus.) a manner of singing or playing the same air with various changes in time rhythm or key: (astron.) deviation from the mean orbit of a heavenly body: (biol.) departure from the mean character of a species.—adjs. Variā′tional pertaining to variation; Vā′riative tending to variation.—Variable species any species with marked rate of variability.

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