Variable vs Banana - What's the difference?

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As a noun variable

is variable.

variable

English

(wikipedia variable)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Able to vary.

variable''' winds or seasons; a '''variable quantity

Likely to vary.

* Shakespeare

Lest that thy love prove likewise variable .

Marked by diversity or difference.

(mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value.

(biology) Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.

Synonyms

* (able to vary) alterable, flexible, changeable, mutable * (likely to vary) fickle, fluctuating, inconstant, shifting, unstable, unsteady * (marked by diversity or difference) varying * aberrant

Antonyms

* (able to vary) constant, invariable, immutable, unalterable, unchangeable * (likely to vary) constant, invariable, immutable, unchangeable * (marked by diversity or difference) unchanging * constant, invariable

Derived terms

* variability * variableness

Noun

(en noun)

Something that is .

Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke

, title= 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.}}

(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.

Synonyms

* (something that is variable) changeable * (something whose value may be dictated or discovered) parameter * variable quantity

Antonyms

* (something that is variable) constant, invariable

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* bound variable * categorical variable * continuous variable * dependent variable * discrete variable * flow variable * free variable * global variable * independent variable * instance variable * interval variable * local variable * member variable * metasyntactic variable * nominal variable * ordinal variable * ratio variable * stock variable * variable star * variably * vary

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banana

English

(wikipedia banana)

Noun

An elongated curved fruit, which grows in bunches, and has a sweet creamy flesh and a smooth yellow skin.

The tropical treelike plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, of the genus Musa , has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.

(uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.

(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare .

Synonyms

* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) jook-sing, Twinkie

Antonyms

* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) egg (Western assimilated into Asian culture)

Coordinate terms

* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) coconut

Derived terms

* banana ball * banana bender * banana boat * banana bond * banana hammock * Bananaland * banana shot * banana paper * banana peel * banana pepper * banana plug * bananaquit * banana republic * bananas * bananas Foster * bananery * banana skin * banana split * banoffee * false banana * pink banana * scarlet banana * second banana * snow banana * top banana

Adjective

(-)

Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

* 2001 , Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles , page 155, ISBN 0738847917.

Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.

* 2002 , Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor , page 53, ISBN 1403371490.

He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.

* 2006 , Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer , page 247, ISBN 0977668800.

[...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.

Hypernyms

* bunch * hand * ----