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Variable quantity   /vˈɛriəbəl kwˈɑntəti/   Listen
Variable quantity

noun
1.
A quantity that can assume any of a set of values.  Synonym: variable.






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"Variable quantity" Quotes from Famous Books



... the exact date of the good old days is a variable quantity. I have known a vain regretter to turn no further back than to the nights of The Merry Widow, The Waltz Dream, The Chocolate Soldier, The Girl in the Train, and The Dollar Princess, in other words to the Viennese renaissance; another, in using the phrase, is subconsciously ...
— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten

... doesn't produce obedience; and it doesn't lead the way to any moral conception or principle. What it does inculcate in the child spirit very quickly is a feeling that the attitude of mother is largely a matter of mood, a very uncertain and variable quantity, which for the time being has to be put up with. And as the child cares more for mother, presumably, than anybody else in the world, it is no more than natural for it to apply this same point-of-view to other people with whom it comes ...
— Heart and Soul • Victor Mapes (AKA Maveric Post)

... addition and subtraction would be sufficient to assure him that he would not be enlarging his income but diminishing it. A man has to live upon a certain scale suited to his needs and tastes, but the income which makes this kind of life possible is a variable quantity. It is not by what men earn in the aggregate that their incomes should be measured, but by what they have left when the necessary cost of living is defrayed. If it costs a man fifty pounds a year more to live in London than in the country, he is obviously no better off by the extra fifty pounds ...
— The Quest of the Simple Life • William J. Dawson

... philosophy, according to Epicurus, is the attainment of a happy life. "Philosophy," says he, "is the power by which reason conducts men to happiness." Truth is a merely relative thing, a variable quantity; and therefore the pursuit of truth for its own sake is superfluous and useless. There is no such thing as absolute, unchangeable right: no action is intrinsically right or wrong. "We choose the virtues, not on their own account, but for the sake of pleasure, just as we seek the skill ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker

... have cited to demonstrate that the return from the playlet is a most variable quantity. The small-time pays less than the big-time, and each individual act on both small- and big-time pays ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page



Words linked to "Variable quantity" :   chance variable, variant, experimental variable, predictor variable, stochastic variable, infinitesimal, variate, quantity, vector, correlate, argument, dependent variable, scalar, degree of freedom, correlative, tensor, random variable, independent variable



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