NCL: A name that can contain a singly-dimensioned or multi-dimensioned data array, dimension names, coordinate variables, attributes, and so forth
An occurrence of a pattern variable is translated into an invocation of the unparse function for the phylum of the pattern variable
(used of a device) designed so that a property (as e g light) can be varied; "a variable capacitor"; "variable filters in front of the mercury xenon lights"
A variable is Lisp object that can store an arbitrary value Emacs uses some variables for internal purposes, and has others (known as `options' (q v )) you can set to control the behavior of Emacs The variables used in Emacs that you are likely to be interested in are listed in the Variables Index of this manual See section Variables, for information on variables
An item of data named by an identifier Each variable has a type, such as int or Object, and a scope See also class variable, instance variable, local variable
a quantity that can assume any of a set of values a symbol (like x or y) that is used in mathematical or logical expressions to represent a variable quantity something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation; "the weather is one variable to be considered"
A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x2 - y2 = R2, x and y are variables
Any characteristic or attribute of persons, objects, or events that can take on different numerical values
(1) A quantity which may take any one of a specified set of values It is convenient to apply the same word to denote non-measurable characteristics, e g "sex" is a variable in this sense since any human individual may take one of two "values," male or female It is useful, but far from being the general practice, to distinguish between a variable as so defined and a random variable or variate (2) Any structural element in an ecosystem that varies over time, also "component " (3)A condition of a system in which elements or a performance measure take different values
A Java name that has scope only from its declaration to the end of the enclosing block Variables are formally called local variables; sometimes, this is abbreviated to locals
A variable is an abbreviation for a sequence of characters, and may appear anywhere that the characters in question could appear Even if the variable contains a number (e g 6 62559e-34) it is still just a characters, although SM may choose to treat them as a number in some contexts (e g the right-hand side of a SET command)
something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation; "the weather is one variable to be considered"
In a system of formal logic, any symbol thatunlike a constantdesignates generally Thus, the propositional calculus employs statement variables, while quantification theory makes use of individual variables Also see OCP