The state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure, The unpleasant or destructive effects of such atmospheric conditions, Wind; storm; tempest, intransitive verb_ To withstand the effects of weather, Nautical To pass to the windward of despite bad weather, To undergo or endure the action of the atmosphere; to suffer meteorological influences; sometimes, to wear away, or alter, under atmospheric influences; to suffer waste by weather, transitive verb_ To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air, Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist, to encounter successfully, though with difficult, to encounter successfully, though with difficulty, adjective_ Relating to or used in weather forecasting, Nautical Of or relating to the windward side of a ship; windward, (Naut.) the shore to the windward of a ship.

The state or quality of being variant or variable; variation, A discrepancy between two statements or documents, especially between the charge in a criminal indictment and the evidence presented, Chemistry The number of thermodynamic variables, such as temperature and pressure, required to specify a state of equilibrium of a system, given by the phase rule; the degrees of freedom of a system

Plural form of variable

Replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables, The introduction of DNA from one cell into another by means of a bacteriophage or one of a variety of chemical or physical methods, The change of one metal into another; transmutation of metals, according to the alchemists

Not governed by a foreign power; self-governing, Free from the influence, guidance, or control of another or others; self-reliant, Not determined or influenced by someone or something else; not contingent, Not dependent on other variables

a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts, A chart or graph, Mathematics A graphic representation of an algebraic or geometric relationship, transitive verb_ To indicate or represent by or as if by a diagram, To put into the form of a diagram, verb_ make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed

Having a particular liking or fondness for something or someone, Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire, Having a predilection for; inclined to favor unreasonably; foolishly fond, noun_ the derivative of a function of two or more variables with respect to a single variable while the other variables are considered to be constant, a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency, Mathematics A partial derivative

A relationship or connection between two things based on co-occurrence or pattern of change, a reciprocal relation between two or more things, a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other

in the fingering for stringed instruments, that the note over which it is placed is to be played on an open string, Something that has no force or meaning, One of the beads in nulled work, adjective_ Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless, (Computers) Unassigned or meaningless; -- a special value given to variables, especially pointers or logical variables, indicating that it is meaningless and cannot be used in computation. The actual value that is stored in memory to indicate the null condition may vary with the computer language used, absent or non-existent, transitive verb_ To make null, to nullify