variables
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- 1Plural of variable.
The study controlled for several variables that might affect the results.
In algebra, letters often stand in for unknown variables.
Note
A regular -s plural that serves every noun use of variable at once: the quantities of algebra, the symbols that stand for them, the named memory locations a program reads and writes, and the variable stars of astronomy. English adjectives never take a plural ending, so the -s itself marks the noun. Variables are always the things that vary, never a description of them.
variables is a form of variable
variable, noun: A quantity that can take any one of a set of possible values. Full entry
- Forms
- variablevariables plural
- Spelling
- variable → variables: add -s
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