variable quantity

1. 1.

   a quantity that can assume any of a set of values

   Synonymsvariable

   Broaderquantity

   Narrowerargumentindependent variablecorrelatedegree of freedomdependent variablepredictor variableinfinitesimalrandom variablescalartensor

Questions about variable quantity

What does variable quantity mean?

variable quantity means "a quantity that can assume any of a set of values".

What is another word for variable quantity?

Close synonyms include variable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is variable quantity a common word?

variable quantity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.