Variable
Part of speech: noun
Definition: something that is variable something whose value may be dictated or discovered a quantity that may assume any one of a set of values a symbol representing a variable a named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them a variable star
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: able to vary likely to vary marked by diversity or difference having no fixed quantitative value tending 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.
Varied
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: diverse or miscellaneoushaving been changed or modifiedvariegated
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To change with time or a similar parameter.
Example sentence: Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.