Metal that has been drawn out into a strand or rod, used chiefly for structural support, as in concrete, and for conducting electricity, when it is usually insulated with a rubber or plastic cladding, The system of strings employed in manipulating puppets in a show, The screen on which sheets of paper are formed in a papermaking machine, intransitive verb_ Slang To install electronic eavesdropping equipment in (a room, for example), To send a telegram to (someone), Computers To implement (a capability) through logic circuitry that is permanently connected within a computer or calculator and therefore not subject to change by programming

Likely to change or vary; subject to variation; changeable, Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable, able to vary, noun_ something that is variable, something whose value may be dictated or discovered, programming a named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them

An abbreviation of variety (frequent in botany and zo”logy); of variant (so used in this work), a unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere, (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups, abbreviation_ programming variable, statistics variance

computing, programming A data structure, especially one that serves to group a number of fields (in contrast to an object-oriented class with methods) or one that is passed by value rather than by reference.