variability
IPA: vɛriʌbˈɪɫɪti
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "variability" in Sentences
- It is well known that the term variability is commonly employed in the broadest possible sense.
- Meanwhile, the short-term variability in U.S. surface temperatures has been decreasing since 1800, suggesting a more stable climate.
- I can't top Mark, but the notion of primitive societies being zero-sum is silly when so much of the bounty or scarcity originate in variability of nature.
- Using $5/mmbtu natural gas, the costs of meeting wind variability is around $45-50/MWH which is expensive relative to coal but is very competitive relative to the market in California.
- The authors used statistical methods rather than modeling to tease out the impacts from factors that contribute to shorter-term variability for five of the most-used temperature records.
- John Christy, a climatologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, said natural long-term variability in climate, rather than greenhouse-gas emissions, could play a greater role in warming.
- If you read the entire Scafetta and West paper, you'll see that they also note that the temperature-sun connection breaks down over a good part of the 20th century, and that solar variability is insufficient to explain the exhibited warming, especially over the last 30 years or so.
- Certainly some errors are predictable based on transference from the L1, but in my experience variability is common and often unpredictable even with groups of learners from the same L1 background with pretty much the same level of exposure to the L2, and this variability often appears to have nothing to do with negative (or even positive, for that matter) transfer.
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