variable
adjective
apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable moods.
variables
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pluralof variable.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Because of the many variables, it’s impossible to say exactly how the city’s trend line would have changed if the beds were counted correctly each year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Computer models allowed them to explore how different variables interacted and to predict changes that would be difficult to measure directly in every experiment.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
A model’s parameters are the variables it uses to learn and recognize patterns during training, and they serve as a sort of memory.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
The more internal variables, or parameters, a model has, the better it can handle complex requests, and Kimi K3 has around 2.8 trillion.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
They pay almost no attention to all the moons and planets, asteroids and comets, quasars and pulsars, exploding galaxies, symbiotic stars, cataclysmic variables and X-ray sources that have been discovered since Ptolemy’s time.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
