Literaladjective
Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.
‘The literal translation is “hands full of bananas” but it means empty-handed.’;
Variableadjective
Able to vary.
‘variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity’;
Literaladjective
Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties.
‘A literal reading of the law would prohibit it, but that is clearly not the intent.’;
Variableadjective
Likely to vary.
Literaladjective
(uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
‘a literal equation’;
Variableadjective
Marked by diversity or difference.
Literaladjective
(of a person) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact.
Variableadjective
(mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value.
Literaladjective
(proscribed) Used non-literally as an intensifier; see literally for usage notes.
‘Telemarketers are the literal worst.’;
Variableadjective
(biology) Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
Literalnoun
A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter.
Variablenoun
Something that is variable.
Literalnoun
(programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
Variablenoun
Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
‘There are several variables to consider here.’;
Literalnoun
(logic) A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable. Wp
Variablenoun
(mathematics) A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
Literaladjective
According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.
‘It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide.’;
Variablenoun
(mathematics) A symbol representing a variable.
Literaladjective
Following the letter or exact words; not free.
‘A middle course between the rigor of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts.’;
Variablenoun
(programming) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
Literaladjective
Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
‘The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers.’;
Variablenoun
(astronomy) A variable star.
Literaladjective
Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact; - applied to persons.
Variablenoun
(nautical) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
Literalnoun
Literal meaning.
Variablenoun
Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
Literalnoun
a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
Variableadjective
Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.
Literaladjective
being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something;
‘her actual motive’; ‘a literal solitude like a desert’; ‘a genuine dilemma’;
Variableadjective
Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable.
‘Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.’; ‘His heart, I know, how variable and vain!’;
Literaladjective
without interpretation or embellishment;
‘a literal translation of the scene before him’;
Variablenoun
That which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change.
Literaladjective
limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text;
‘a literal translation’;
Variablenoun
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.
Literaladjective
lacking stylistic embellishment;
‘a literal description’; ‘wrote good but plain prose’; ‘a plain unadorned account of the coronation’; ‘a forthright unembellished style’;
Variablenoun
A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
Literaladjective
of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis;
‘it's the literal truth’; ‘a matter of investment, pure and simple’;
Variablenoun
something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation;
‘the weather is one variable to be considered’;
Literaladjective
(of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original;
‘literal translation of the article’; ‘an awkward word-for-word translation’;
Variablenoun
a quantity that can assume any of a set of values
Variablenoun
a star that varies noticeably in brightness
Variablenoun
a symbol (like x or y) that is used in mathematical or logical expressions to represent a variable quantity
Variableadjective
liable to or capable of change;
‘rainfall in the tropics is notoriously variable’; ‘variable winds’; ‘variable expenses’;
Variableadjective
marked by diversity or difference;
‘the varying angles of roof slope’; ‘nature is infinitely variable’;
Variableadjective
(used of a device) designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied;
‘a variable capacitor’; ‘variable filters in front of the mercury xenon lights’;
