Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for VA'RI-A-BLE
VA'RI-A-BLEVA'RI-A-BLE-NESS, or VA-RI-A-BIL'I-TY
VA'RI-A-BLE, n.
In mathematics, a quantity which is in a state of continual increase or decrease. The indefinitely small quantity by which a variable is continually increased or diminished, is called its differential, and the method of finding these quantities, the differential calculus. – Hutton.
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