vargus.html - {n.} A program that includes several different kinds of entertainment (as songs, dances, comic skits and little dramas). * /Jane's father was the master of ceremonies of a variety show on TV./

vargus.html - {n.} A store that sells many different kinds of things, especially items that are fairly small and in everyday use. * /I went into a variety store and bought some paint./ * /Five-and-ten cent stores are a kind of variety store./

vargus.html - abbr.
1 variant.
2 variety.

vargus.html - n.
a semiconductor diode with a capacitance dependent on the applied voltage. [varying re actor]

vargus.html - n.
1 seaweed.
2 = KELP. [F varec(h) f. ON: rel. to WRECK]

vargus.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 a that can be varied or adapted (a rod of variable length; the pressure is variable). b (of a gear) designed to give varying speeds.
2 apt to vary; not constant; unsteady (a variable mood; variable fortunes).
3 Math. (of a quantity) indeterminate; able to assume different numerical values.
4 (of wind or currents) tending to change direction.
5 Astron. (of a star) periodically varying in brightness.
6 Bot. & Zool. (of a species) including individuals or groups that depart from the type.
7 Biol. (of an organism or part of it) tending to change in structure or function.

--n.

1 a variable thing or quantity.
2 Math. a variable quantity.
3 Naut. a a shifting wind. b (in pl.) the region between the NE and SE trade winds.

variability n. variableness n. variably adv. [ME f. OF f. L variabilis (as VARY)]