Element vs Variable - What's the difference?
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One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
* (Benjamin Jowett) (1817-1893) ((Thucydides))
# (label) Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
# One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
# (label) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
# (label) One of the objects in a set.
A small part of the whole.
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A place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards.
The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
A short form of heating element, a component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
(label) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching pair of tags.
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Able to vary.
Likely to vary.
* Shakespeare
Marked by diversity or difference.
(mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value.
(biology) Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
Something that is .
Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
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, title= (mathematics) A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
(mathematics) A symbol representing a variable.
(programming) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
(astronomy) A variable star.
(nautical) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
(nautical, in the plural) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
As nouns the difference between element and variable
is that element is element (part of a whole) while variable is variable.element
English
(wikipedia element)Noun
(en noun)- The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
- The div element was introduced into HTML as a solution to the layout problem.
Synonyms
* (in chemistry) chemical element * (in set theory) memberDerived terms
* chemical element * data element * heating elementSee also
* atomExternal links
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* English terms derived from Etruscan ----variable
English
(wikipedia variable)Adjective
(en adjective)- variable''' winds or seasons; a '''variable quantity
- Lest that thy love prove likewise variable .
Synonyms
* (able to vary) alterable, flexible, changeable, mutable * (likely to vary) fickle, fluctuating, inconstant, shifting, unstable, unsteady * (marked by diversity or difference) varying * aberrantAntonyms
* (able to vary) constant, invariable, immutable, unalterable, unchangeable * (likely to vary) constant, invariable, immutable, unchangeable * (marked by diversity or difference) unchanging * constant, invariableDerived terms
* variability * variablenessNoun
(en noun)Katie L. Burke
In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}