variable quantity

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variable quantity - a quantity that can assume any of a set of valuesvariablequantity - the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variableargument - a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variableexperimental variable, independent variable - (statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variablescorrelate, correlative - either of two or more related or complementary variablesdegree of freedom - (statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distributiondependent variable - (statistics) a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value depends on the independent variable; "if f(x)=y, y is the dependent variable"predictor variable - a variable that can be used to predict the value of another variable (as in statistical regression)infinitesimal - (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limitchance variable, random variable, stochastic variable, variate, variant - a variable quantity that is randomscalar - a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into componentstensor - a generalization of the concept of a vectorvector - a variable quantity that can be resolved into components