varible.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./

varible.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./

varible.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)]

varible.html - n.
1 difference of opinion; dispute, disagreement; lack of harmony (at variance among ourselves; a theory at variance with all known facts).
2 Law a discrepancy between statements or documents.
3 Statistics a quantity equal to the square of the standard deviation. [ME f. OF f. L variantia difference (as VARY)]

varible.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 differing in form or details from the main one (a variant spelling).
2 having different forms (forty variant types of pigeon).
3 variable or changing.

--n.

a variant form, spelling, type, reading, etc. [ME f. OF (as VARY)]

varible.html - n.
Statistics 1 a quantity having a numerical value for each member of a group.
2 a variable quantity, esp. one whose values occur according to a frequency distribution. [past part. of L variare (as VARY)]