Noun variable quantity has 1 sense
  1. variable, variable quantity - a quantity that can assume any of a set of values
    --1 is a kind of quantity
    --1 has particulars:
     argument; independent variable, experimental variable; correlate, correlative; degree of freedom; dependent variable; predictor variable; random variable, variate, variant, stochastic variable, chance variable; scalar; tensor; vector
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