" variable "

 [ "Variable" ]

1:  An unknown number in a math equation. A named region of memory in a computer program.

  * e.g.,  ...  3=5x solve for the variable x. Don't use global variables; keeping track of all the subroutines modifying the same memory gets very confusing very fast. 

 [ "Variable" ]

1: Satan's Creation or A Piece of Gorilla Shit Mostly Used in Algebra

  * e.g.,  ... Had to take a HUUUGE variable just now 

 [ "Variable" ]

1: Someone who experiences extreme variations of his intelligence.

  * e.g.,  ... This guy is a real variable! You never know whether he's going to explain quantum physics or jump around like a monkey! 

 [ "Windows variables" ]

1: Variables that windows uses (that you can use too) as shortcuts for files / directories (folders), typed in-between percentage symbols (%).

  * e.g.,  ... These are examples of windows variables (windows 7) : 

 [ "constants and variables" ]

1: according to the theory of "eternal return", where one is fixed to repeat their own life over and over again infinitely, the people who populate your lives each time are split into two categories: constants are those that will ALWAYS be there with each cycle (family, parents, siblings, children, the individuals you had those children with) variables are those that change with each cycle, that are not always present around you each time (friends, co-workers)

  * e.g.,  ... your life is full of constants and variables. the father of your child is a constant and the woman he cheated on you with is a variable. 

 [ "dependent variable" ]

1: In science, the dependent variable is your result from your independent variable.

  * e.g.,  ... Jack is conducting a science experiment. He is growing a rose plant, a marigold plant, and a sunflower plant to see which can grow the tallest. He gives all three plants the same amount of sunlight and water. His dependent variable would be how tall each plant grows because it is the result of his experiment. 

 [ "independent variable" ]

1: In science, it is the variable that you intentionally change.

  * e.g.,  ... In an experiment, Lyndsey has three sunflower plants. They are all given the same amount of sunlight; however, she gives one drop of water to one plant, two drops to another, and no water to the third. Lyndsey's independent variable is the amount of water. 

 [ "metasyntactic variable" ]

1: A metasyntactic variable is a word that is used by programmers in place of an object, number or idea under discussion.

  * e.g.,  ... if (foo > bar) 

 [ "metasyntactic variable" ]

2: The most common system of metasyntactic variables is: foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, quuux...

  * e.g.,  ... baz += qux 

 [ "controlled variable" ]

1: The control variable in scientific experimentation is the element which is constant and unchanged throughout the investigation.

  * e.g.,  ... A controlled variable is a part of the experiment that doesn't change 

 [ "negro variable" ]

1: One lone African American in a group of whiteys.

  * e.g.,  ... That guy is the negro variable of our math class.