VARIABLE QUANTITY

Pronunciation (US):

• VARIABLE QUANTITY (noun)
  The noun VARIABLE QUANTITY has 1 sense:

1. a quantity that can assume any of a set of values

  Familiarity information: VARIABLE QUANTITY used as a noun is very rare.

• VARIABLE QUANTITY (noun)

Meaning:

A quantity that can assume any of a set of values

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

variable quantity; variable

Hypernyms ("variable quantity" is a kind of...):

quantity (something that has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "variable quantity"):

argument (a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable)

tensor (a generalization of the concept of a vector)

scalar (a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components)

chance variable; random variable; stochastic variable; variant; variate (a variable quantity that is random)

infinitesimal ((mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit)

predictor variable (a variable that can be used to predict the value of another variable (as in statistical regression))

dependent variable ((statistics) a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value depends in the independent variable; if f(x)=y, y is the dependent variable)

degree of freedom ((statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution)

correlate; correlative (either of two correlated variables)

experimental variable; independent variable ((statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables)

vector (a variable quantity that can be resolved into components)