variable quantity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvariableandquantity
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variable
adjective
uk/ˈveə.ri.ə.bəl/us/ˈver.i.ə.bəl/
likely to ...
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quantity
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈkwɒn.tə.ti/us/ˈkwɑːn.t̬ə.t̬i/
the amount or number of something, especially that can ...
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(Definition ofvariableandquantityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofvariable quantity
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Workers consume and supply avariablequantityof labor, in every period.
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The time between periastron and vernal equinox is avariablequantity, however, because orbital speed depends on orbital longitude as well as eccentricity.
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The resultant k-measure becomes avariablequantityas a function of prevalence and no longer remains invariant.
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Extensional vagueness, the possession of actual borderline cases, is avariablequantity.
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It is this concept of current knowledge base, which is avariablequantity, and the ability to indirectly make reference to it which causes the nonmonotonicity.
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I pass by the fact that the effect of it would be, of course, to make the subsidy a veryvariablequantity.
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The quantity of germ available which, for technical reasons, is avariablequantity, is distributed to approved recipients.
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In connection with any kind of justice one essential is that it should be uniform and not of avariablequantity.
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But everyone has to drink water in approximately the same quantities, at least a much lessvariablequantity.
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The daily ration of milk for enlisted boys is half a pint a day in addition to avariablequantityrequired for hot beverages, puddings, etc.
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Economic and financial life is essentially avariablequantityfrom day to day and week to week, with one factor interacting upon another.
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The onlyvariablequantityof the ideal gas law independent of density and pressure is temperature.
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The first is a perpetual function, or a flowvariablequantity.
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The first, which is mathematical and chiefly devoted to the study of variable quantities, comprises 15 propositions.
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These bones are composed of two thin layers of compact bone enclosing between them avariablequantity of cancellous bone, which is the location of red bone marrow.
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These proteins contain variable quantities of cysteine which is essential for the formation of interand intra-molecular disulphide bond formation in the synthesis of the cytoskeleton.
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This work on variable quantities, set in train by the needs of astronomy, made them a part of the geometry of infinitesimals.
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The second group is made up of the following three propositions - 5, 6 and 7 - which also deal with variable quantities and variable ratios.
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After sampling, the sheets of paper containing variable quantities of faeces were removed, folded fourfold and placed individually in small plastic bags, and transported to the laboratory within 2 days.
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In addition, variable quantities of low-activity waste are stored under appropriate conditions at a number of sites.
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