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variable
/ˈvɛɹiəbəl/
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Keep the first syllable strongest.
In the four-syllable pronunciation VAIR-ee-uh-buhl, the vowels after r occupy separate syllables. Move gently through them before the light final syllable ending in l.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The program stores the result in a variable.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does variable mean?
adjective
- Able to vary or be varied.
- Likely to vary.
- Marked by diversity or difference.
More meanings (10)
adjective
- Having no fixed quantitative value.
- Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
noun
- Something that is variable.
- Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
- A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
- A symbol representing a variable.
- A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
- A variable star.
- A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
- Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈvɛɹiəbəl/
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I never heard a passion so confus’d, So strange, outrageous, and so variable As the dog Jew did utter in the streets.
The radial spines are somewhat variable in relative length, often becoming almost equal, while sometimes the upper radials are very much reduced.
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If, then, these two varieties be variable, the most divergent of their variations will generally be preserved during the next thousand generations.
The area occupied by the spokes is very irregular, being marked out by the supports of the branch, which are infinitely variable.
Now, submarine signalling has none of these defects, for the medium is water, subject to no such variable conditions as the air.