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variability
[vair-ee-uh-bil-i-tee]
noun
the quality of being subject to change, especially frequent, random, or short-term change: Ensuring effective cooperation in home care is difficult because of the variability of schedules and tasks of both patients and caregivers.
On a longer time scale, climate variability translates into shortages of food and water worldwide.
Ensuring effective cooperation in home care is difficult because of the variability of schedules and tasks of both patients and caregivers.
the quality of including different kinds, or of being different from one case to the other; diversity.
Healthcare administrators noted the variability among nursing education programs and called for standardization.
Other Word Forms
- hypervariability noun
- nonvariability noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of variability1
Example Sentences
Geochemist Jung notes, "Our mechanism explains the variability of Sargassum growth better than any previous approaches. However, there is still uncertainty as to whether and to what extent other factors also play a role."
The failure of bee colonies was caused by a wide range of factors, including but not limited to pathogens, pests, pesticides, pollutants, habitat loss, climate variability, agricultural production intensification, and crop management practices.
“I don’t know if the auctions will turn out weak, but the shutdown increases the variability of outcomes” for this week’s government-debt sales.
The return of capital can help fund managers reduce the variability of monthly distributions over time.
And some scientists believe that might be to do with how climate change is affecting circulation patterns in our atmosphere, but that is far from certain and natural variability may also be playing a role.
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