the quality of being subject to change, especially frequent, random, or short-term change: On a longer time scale, climate variability translates into shortages of food and water worldwide.Ensuring effective cooperation in home care is difficult because of the variability of schedules and tasks of both patients and caregivers.
the quality of including different kinds, or of being different from one case to the other; diversity: Healthcare administrators noted the variability among nursing education programs and called for standardization.
There are regional differences and variable outcomes by retailer, with many in bankruptcy.
E-commerce explodes: 45% growth in Q2|Greg Sterling|August 19, 2020|Search Engine Land
“If you know the first five things you’ve assigned don’t fit together, you don’t have to look at any of the other variables, and that generally cuts the search down a whole lot,” said Shor, who is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Computer Search Settles 90-Year-Old Math Problem|Kevin Hartnett|August 19, 2020|Quanta Magazine
There are too many new players and too many variables to assume that two superpowers will monopolize the rules of technology for the foreseeable future.
Covid-19 and the geopolitics of American decline|Katie McLean|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
This gave us a total pitch quality score for every pitcher, combining all speed and movement variables and weighted by their relative importance.
What Really Gives Left-Handed Pitchers Their Edge?|Guy Molyneux|August 17, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
We also expect turnout to be harder to predict this year based on primary elections held during the pandemic that had highly variable turnout — which, in turn, could lead to more polling error.
It’s Way Too Soon To Count Trump Out|Nate Silver (nrsilver@fivethirtyeight.com)|August 12, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
It tells us little to nothing about variability by region, by education level, by type of jobs.
Don’t Trust the Economic Numbers That Govern Our World|Zachary Karabell|February 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Most people have a large degree of variability in their heart rates during the course of a day.
Inside Seal Team Six by Don Mann Excerpt|Don Mann|December 4, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Here, as elsewhere, the absolute range of variability depends upon the number of individuals observed.
Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl|Charles Benedict Davenport
That is, we must know the amount of variability as well as the extent of the greatest divergence from the average.
The Social Direction of Evolution|William E. Kellicott
Sufficient, however, has been here stated to illustrate the variability of the position of the neutral point.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2|John Tyndall
Every species is more or less variable, and this variability may be developed by different causes.
The Story of the Earth and Man|J. W. Dawson
The Aristotelian would find no difficulty in such a variability; it is only the disciple of Dalton to whom it seems impossible.