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Plural of variable

regular plural

The plural of variable is variables.

Forms of variable

Singularvariable [ˈvɛə.ɹi.ə.bl̩]
Pluralvariables
Countablecountable

Variables in a sentence

  • There are several variables to consider here.
  • A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193
  • In zero-based indexing, array variables in a computer program are numbered upwards from zero.From the entry indexing
  • In many programming languages, numeric values are not assignable to string variables.From the entry assignable
  • The problem is easier to understand if you disassociate the variables.From the entry disassociate

Meaning of variable

  1. adjective Able to vary or be varied.
  2. adjective Likely to vary.
  3. adjective Marked by diversity or difference.

Full definition of variable

Questions about the plural of variable

What is the plural of variable?
The plural of variable is variables.
Is variable countable?
Variable is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: variable (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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