Variable
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
(2): ( n.) That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change.
(3): ( n.) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
(4): ( a.) Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.
(5): ( n.) 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.
(6): ( a.) Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable.
King James Dictionary [2]
Va'Riable, a.
1. That may vary or alter capable of alteration in any manner changeable as variable winds or seasons variable colors. 2. Susceptible of change liable to change mutable fickle unsteady inconstant as, the affections of men are variable passions are variable.
His heart I know, how variable and vain.
3. In mathematics, subject to continual increase or decrease in opposition to constant, retaining the same value.
Va'Riable, n. In mathematics, a quantity which is in a state of continual increase or decrease. The indefinitely small quantity by which a variable is continually increased or diminished, is called its differential, and the method of finding these quantities, the differential calculus.
