noun / adjective · academic
variable
UK/ˈveəriəb(ə)l/US/ˈveriəbəl/VA·ri·a·ble
Band 7+task1task2
(n) something that can change or be changed; (adj) likely to change or to be different
Examples
“Age is a variable that the study controlled for.”
“Weather in this region is highly variable.”
“We measured how each variable affected the outcome.”
Band 8 sentence
“When designing the experiment, we controlled as many variables as possible to isolate the effect of the intervention.”
Collocations
- dependent variable
- highly variable
Word family
variability nounvary verb
Common mistakes
variables is→variables are
a variable data→variable data / a variable
Say it for a higher band
5change→6fluctuating→7+variable
Synonyms
changeable
Easily confused
variation
“There was considerable variation in test scores between classes.”
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