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Definitions: Variability |
VariabilityNoun1. The quality of being subject to variation. 2. A quality of variability and lack of uniformity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "variability" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Finance | The possible different outcomes of an event. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | The variation in the numerical magnitude of quantities. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military & Defense | The manner in which the probability of damage to a specific target decreases with the distance from ground zero; or, in damage assessment, a mathematical factor introduced to average the effects of orientation, minor shielding and uncertainty of target response to the effects considered. Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | The changes in the magnetic properties of a material or magnetic circuit with time or operating conditions. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: VariabilitySynonyms: unevenness (n), variableness (n), variance (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: evenness (n), invariability (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Variability |
| English words defined with "variability": allomerism ♦ personal equation ♦ unevenness, unstable ♦ variegation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "variability": bastard ganister ♦ CLIMATE CHANGE, cryogenic switching elements ♦ design floor time histories ♦ ENSO ♦ first detection, fundamental descriptors ♦ global climate change ♦ Hadley cell ♦ Lymphoma, Small Cleaved-Cell, Diffuse ♦ magnetic variability, mean trigonometric deviation ♦ Pharmacogenetics, Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic ♦ resource characterization, risk indexes ♦ sahel, seasonally adjusted estimates, solar atmospheric tide, Spatial Variability, sub unit, systematic square ♦ technical descriptors, thermal gradient ♦ variable number of tandem repeats locus, VNTR locus ♦ Wind Turbine Rated Capacity. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Variability across children is substantial. (references) | |
Standardizing these factors will reduce the variability. (references) | ||
Like all genetic disorders, PKU demonstrates extensive genetic and clinical variability. (references) | ||
Economic History | Cote d'Ivoire | To reduce the economic exposure to price variability, the government encourages export diversification and intermediate processing of cocoa beans. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Variability" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Variability" is used about 405 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 405 | 13,877 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "variability": magnetic variability ♦ vor radial variability error. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
heart rate variability | 35 |
variability | 8 |
measure variability | 4 |
environmental variability | 2 |
assay elisa intra variability | 2 |
precipitation variability | 2 |
assay elisa variability | 2 |
solar variability | 2 |
genetic variability | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "variability"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ndryshueshmëri (changeability, fickleness, instability, lability, mobility), lëvizshmëri (mercuriality, mobility, motility, movability, mutability, removability). (various references) | |
Arabic | المتقلبية, المتغيرية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | непостоянство (changeability, fickleness, inconstancy, instability, irresolution, mercuriality, mobility, uncertainty, vacillation, volatility, wabble, wobble), променчивост (uncertainty), променливост (changeability, inconsistency, inconstancy, inequality, versatility). (various references) | |
Chinese | 可变性. (various references) | |
Danish | variabilitet (magnetic variability). (various references) | |
Dutch | variabiliteit. (various references) | |
Finnish | variabiliteetti, vaihtelu (alternation, fluctuation, variation, variety), vaihtelevuus (historical volatility, volatility), muuntelevuus. (various references) | |
French | variabilité. (various references) | |
German | Veränderlichkeit (adjustability, alterability, changeability, changeableness, inconstancy, mutability), Variabilität. (various references) | |
Greek | μεταβλητότητα (alterability, modality, mutability, the susceptibility of a characteristic to assume different qualitative values). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משת ות, "שת ות (alteration, change, changing, mutation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | változékonyság (inequality, instability, uncertainty, versatility), szóródási faktor. (various references) | |
Italian | variabilit (changeability, changeableness). (various references) | |
Korean | 가변성 (Expansible). (various references) | |
Manx | ceaghlaght. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ariabilityvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | variabilidade (variance). (various references) | |
Romanian | variabilitate (changeableness, fluctuation, mutability, unsteadiness), schimbare (about-face, alteration, change, changeableness, chop, conversion, exchange, fluctuation, modification, mutability, mutation, novelty, passage, shift, transformation, unsteadiness, vacillation, variance, variation). (various references) | |
Russian | непостоянство (changeability, fickleness, inconstancy, instability, vacillation, volatility), изменчивость (changeability, fickleness, inconstancy, inequality, mutability, uncertainty, volatility). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | varijabilnost, promenljivost (changeability, fickleness, inconstancy, transmutation, versatility). (various references) | |
Spanish | variabilidad. (various references) | |
Swedish | variabilitet (magnetic variability). (various references) | |
Turkish | kararsızlık (changeability, dither, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fickleness, flightiness, fluctuation, haziness, hesitance, hesitancy, incertitude, inconsistency, indecision, indeterminate, infirmity, infirmity of purpose, instability, irresolution, looseness, oscillation, quandary, shilly shally, suspense, uncertainty, unsteadiness, vacillation), değişkenlik (capriciousness, changeability, fluidity, incalculability, inconstancy, inequality, instability, mobility, uncertainty, unsteadiness, variable, versatility), döneklik (apostasy, fickleness, inconstancy, tergiversation, untrustworthiness, versatility, volatility). (various references) | |
Ukranian | мінливість (caprice, changeability, inconsistency, inequality, mobility, mutability, mutation, uncertainty, vicissitude). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính hay thay đổi (changeability, fickleness, flightiness, humoursomeness, inconstancy, mutability, unevenness, vagary, variableness, volatility, waywardness, whimsicality, whimsicalness), tính hay biến đổi (variableness), tính biến thiên (variableness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "variability": invariability. (additional references) | |
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"Variability" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: variablility. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "variability" (pronounced verēubi"lutē) |
| 8 | -ē u b i" l u t ē | amiability, malleability, permeability. |
| 7 | -u b i" l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, fallibility, feasibility, flammability, flexibility, gullibility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incompatibility, indestructibility, inevitability, infallibility, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, palatability, plausibility, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, sensibility, stability, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, viability, visibility, vulnerability. |
| 6 | -b i" l u t ē | immobility, mobility, nobility. |
| 5 | -i" l u t ē | agility, civility, docility, ductility, facility, fertility, fragility, futility, gentility, hostility, humility, incivility, infertility, motility, nonutility, senility, sterility, tranquility, utility, versatility, virility, volatility. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | abnormality, accountability, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, credulity, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, equality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, fidelity, finality, formality, frivolity, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, incredulity, individuality, inequality, infidelity, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, polity, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, quality, rationality, reality, seasonality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-i-i-i-l-r-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: arability, viability. | |
-3 letters: variably, virility. | |
-4 letters: ability, biliary, ratably, travail, trivial. | |
-5 letters: airily, artily, atrial, aviary, baryta, lariat, latria, tibial, tribal, trilby, trivia, viably. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-i-i-i-l-r-t-v-y" | |
+2 letters: invariability. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 72 69 61 62 69 6C 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- .-. .. .- -... .. .-.. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100001 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a r i a b i l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0072 0069 0061 0062 0069 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5667847567687578758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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