Usually means: Element that can change value.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. variable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. variable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. variable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. variable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. variable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Variable, variable: Wordnik
  7. variable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. variable: Wiktionary
  9. variable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. variable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. variable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. variable: Dictionary.com
  13. variable (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. variable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Variable, Variable (computer science), Variable (computing), Variable (disambiguation), Variable (math), Variable (mathematics), Variable (programming), Variable (research), Variable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Variable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. variable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. variable: Rhymezone
  19. variable, variable, variable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. variable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. variable: Free Dictionary
  22. variable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. variable: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. variable: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. variable: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Variable: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Variable: bizterms.net
  4. Variable: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Variable (computer science), Variable (mathematics), variable: Legal dictionary
  7. Variable (computer science), Variable (mathematics), variable: Financial dictionary
  8. Variable: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. variable: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. variable: CCI Computer
  3. Variable: Cybernetics and Systems
  4. Variable: Game Dictionary
  5. variable: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  6. Webopedia (No longer online)
  7. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Technopedia (No longer online)
  9. Variable (computer science), Variable (mathematics), variable: Encyclopedia
  10. Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Variable: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Variable: Glossary of Medical Education Terms
  5. Variable (computer science), Variable (mathematics), variable: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)
  4. Variable: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  5. variable: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  6. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  7. variable: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  8. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  9. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Variable: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Able to vary or be varied.
adjective:  Likely to vary.
adjective:  Marked by diversity or difference.
adjective:  (mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value.
adjective:  (biology) Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
noun:  Something that is variable.
noun:  Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
noun:  (mathematics) A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
noun:  (mathematics) A symbol representing a variable.
noun:  (programming) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
noun:  (astronomy) A variable star.
noun:  (nautical) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
noun:  (nautical, in the plural) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.

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