Multivariate
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having or involving multiple variables
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A vector, each of whose elements is a variate
Variable
Part of speech: noun
Definition: something that is variablesomething whose value may be dictated or discovereda quantity that may assume any one of a set of valuesa symbol representing a variablea named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read thema variable star
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: able to varylikely to varymarked by diversity or differencehaving no fixed quantitative valuetending to deviate from a normal or recognized type
Example sentence: Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.