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variability

/ˌvæɹ.i.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/

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What does variability mean?

noun

  1. The state or characteristic of being variable.
  2. The degree to which a thing is variable. In data or statistics this is often a measurement of distance from the mean or a description of data range.

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How account, in short, by our law of proportion, for the variability of the value of the calendar?
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444
If you add the variability in value of analogy, a variability not often immediately recognized, the case becomes still worse.
Hans GrossCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsTranslated by Horace Meyer KallenProject Gutenberg ebook #1320
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Darwin was no nearer to an experimental proof of this assumption than to the discovery of the actual cause of variability.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909
And if there be any variability under nature, it would be an unaccountable fact if natural selection had not come into play.
Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeProject Gutenberg ebook #1228
There are people to whom convention is truly almost holy, and true to our principle of variability, there are others who hate convention.
Abraham MyersonThe Foundations of PersonalityProject Gutenberg ebook #1575