intervening variable

/ (ˌɪntəˈviːnɪŋ) /

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noun

psychol a hypothetical variable postulated to account for the way in which a set of independent variables control a set of dependent variables

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Words nearby intervening variable

interval signal, interval training, intervarsity, intervene, intervenient, intervening variable, intervenor, intervention, interventional radiology, interventionism, interventionist

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How to use intervening variable in a sentence

Yet their work lives on, and hardly seems to have lost any of its vitality during the intervening years.
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Israelis have been intervening in American politics for years.
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But turnout tends to be far more variable in a midterm election and modeling become far difficult.
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On November 24, 1986, the NSPG met from 2:00 until 3:45 in the afternoon to discuss developments in the intervening two weeks.
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Eventually, the U.S. pulled back from intervening in Syria—well, at least for a year or so.
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Not much use as the high crests hid the intervening hinterland from view, even from the crow's nests.
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It is small in cloudy swelling from toxins and drugs, and variable in renal tuberculosis and neoplasms.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
If not, he must carefully study the intervening pages with painstaking—for when once learned, no further difficulty can arise.
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Its disadvantage is that it introduces, with the bread, a variable amount of lactic acid and numerous yeast-cells.
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Streptococci are arranged side by side, forming chains of variable length (Fig. 114).
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