A quantity that can assume any of a set of values.
1 The capacity of the lungs for air is a very variable quantity :
2 These examples I have cited to demonstrate that the return from the playlet is a most variable quantity .
3 He is a variable quantity .
4 The voltage across the arc is a variable quantity , depending on the length of the flame, its temperature and the gases liberated in the arc.
5 And the offense is a variable quantity ; what is a crime in one State under this Act, is a legal right and duty in another.
6 All HP tissue samples exhibited variable quantities of neutrophils located inside vessels, and in the interstitial and alveolar spaces.
7 There is one glory of the Gazetteer with his fixed facts, and another of the Poet with his variable quantities of fancy.
8 My mother left us together alone, as her custom was, for what time I had to spare- avariablequantity always with me.
9 The necessary plant-foods do not alone enter the plant but whatever may be in solution in the soil-water enters the plant in variable quantities .
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