Fluctuation vs Variability - What's the difference?
fluctuation | variability |
A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction.
A wavering; unsteadiness.
In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion.
the state or characteristic of being variable
the degree to which a thing is variable. In data or statistics this is often a measurement of distance from the mean or a description of data range.
As nouns the difference between fluctuation and variability
is that fluctuation is a motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction while variability is the state or characteristic of being variable.fluctuation
English
Noun
(en noun)- the fluctuations of the sea
- fluctuations of opinion
- fluctuations of prices