Clues for the word "VARIABLE"
We've had 15 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 24 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on September 24, 2025.
Definition of variable
- a. - Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.
- a. - Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable.
- n. - That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change.
- n. - A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x2 - y2 = R2, x and y are variables.
- n. - A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
- n. - Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
Referring Clues
- Like some manufacturing costs
- X or Y, in algebra
- Mathematical quantity
- Changing
- In the answers to 17-, 34- and 57-Across, it was replaced in turn by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ...
- Fluctuating
- Algebraic uncertainty
- Not consistent or having a fixed pattern
- Liable to change
- Inconstant
- Changeable
- Opposed to agricultural land in which "i" is used for "x"?
- Not fixed
- The "x" or "y" in 2x 3y = 15
- Capable of change
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - September 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 31, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 31, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 25, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - March 22, 2024
- Your Life Choices - September 20, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - May 25, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - December 13, 2022
- Family Time - July 24, 2022
- Mirror Quick - June 15, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - June 14, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - May 20, 2017
- Guardian Quick - September 27, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - July 23, 2015
- I Swear Crossword - November 08, 2013
- Guardian Quick - November 07, 2013
- LA Times - April 27, 2013
- Washington Post - September 29, 2012
- New York Times - August 11, 2011
- Washington Post - December 27, 2010
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 16, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - September 18, 2007
- USA Today - June 09, 2006
- New York Times - August 16, 2000