Variable (English)
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Definition (keystage 2)
A variable is something that changes. It is a quantity, which can take on different values. It is the opposite of a constant.
Definition (keystage 3)
A quantity, represented by a letter or other symbol, whose size we do not know, or whose size can change sometimes.
Relations
- broader:
- (en) Algebraic object
- narrower:
- (en) Arbitrary
- (en) Argument of a function
- (en) Infinitesimal
- (en) Parameter
- (en) Random variable
- (en) Related rates
- (en) Slack variable
- (en) Unknown
- (en) x
- references:
- (en) Algebra
- referenced:
- (en) Bivariate
- (en) Coefficient before variable
- (en) Constant
- (en) For all
- (en) Graph of a function
- (en) Higher order equation
- (en) Identity
- (en) Multivariable
- (en) Multivariable expression
- (en) Substitution
- (en) var
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