Synonyms:
variable
Meaning: liable to or capable of change; "rainfall in the tropics is notoriously variable"; "variable winds"; "variable expenses"
Synonyms:
varying, variable
Meaning: marked by diversity or difference; "the varying angles of roof slope"; "nature is infinitely variable"
Synonyms:
variable
Meaning: (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"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
variable
Meaning: something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation; "the weather is one variable to be considered"
Synonyms:
variable, variable_quantity
Meaning: a quantity that can assume any of a set of values
Usage examples
A moral, philosophical discourse needs not enter into all these caprices of language, which are so variable in different dialects, and in different ages of the same dialect.
"A most variable climate," said the Duchess; "and how unfortunate that we should have had that very cold weather at a time when coal was so dear! So distressing for the poor."
"Oh, sir, I will indeed be worthy of the confidence that you have shown in me!" Her eyes moistened; her variable color came and went; her dress heaved softly over the lovely outline of her bosom.
The vault that spanned the space above, the sky, if it could be called so, seemed composed of vast plains of cloud, shifting and variable vapours, which by their condensation must at certain times fall in torrents of rain.