Variability

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Variability \Va`ri*a*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. variabilit['e].]
     1. The quality or state of being variable; variableness.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Biol.) The power possessed by living organisms, both
        animal and vegetable, of adapting themselves to


        modifications or changes in their environment, thus
        possibly giving rise to ultimate variation of structure or
        function.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  variability
       n 1: the quality of being subject to variation [syn: {variableness},
             {variance}] [ant: {invariability}, {invariability}]
       2: a quality of variability and lack of uniformity [syn: {unevenness}]
          [ant: {evenness}, {evenness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "variability":
     arrhythmia, brokenness, capriciousness, changeability,
     changeableness, choppiness, dappleness, desultoriness, deviability,
     deviation, difference, differentiation, disconnectedness,
     discontinuity, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification,
     eccentricity, erraticism, erraticness, fibrillation, fickleness,
     fitfulness, fits and starts, flightiness, fluctuation,
     freakishness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, inconstancy,
     inequality, instability, intermittence, irregularity, jerkiness,
     mercuriality, moodiness, motleyness, mutability, nonconformism,
     nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, patchiness,
     pluralism, raggedness, restlessness, roughness, shiftiness,
     spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger,
     uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, undependability,
     unevenness, unfixedness, unmethodicalness, unorthodoxy,
     unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unstableness,
     unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, variation,
     variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wantonness,
     wavering, waywardness, whimsicality, wobble