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variable
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The Scorch Trials
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- These situations inflicted upon you are called the Variables, and each one has been meticulously thought out.†
p. 55.5variables = things that are able to change
- Continue to respond well to the Variables, continue to survive, and you'll be rewarded with the knowledge that you've played a part in saving the human race.†
p. 55.6
- Not one Variable was thrown at you that didn't serve a purpose for our collection of killzone patterns.†
p. 56.7variable = able to changestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" in variable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. Note that when "-able" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "Y", the "Y" is often replaced with "I" as in enviable and deniable.
- Their meal had been quiet and somber, the talk drifting toward what the Rat Man had said about the Variables and how their responses to them were all that mattered.†
p. 106.9variables = things that are able to change
- What Rat Man had said, that their responses to the Variables were what this was all about.†
p. 204.9
- Did you get the additions to the Variables list?†
p. 205.6
- I think the plan for those Variables is just about the only thing that will work.†
p. 206.2
- He responds really sharply to the Variables.†
p. 242.6
- More about the Variables.†
p. 247.5
- Or Variables, whatever.†
p. 248.1
- If the Variables don't work, they'll end up the same anyway.†
p. 275.5
- A lot of the things they're doing to us don't make sense because they're just part of the trials—what WICKED calls the Variables.†
p. 278.8
- So ...I think this is just another Variable to see what we'll all do.†
p. 278.9variable = able to changestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" in variable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. Note that when "-able" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "Y", the "Y" is often replaced with "I" as in enviable and deniable.
- Our comas had to be part of the Variables, so maybe we could communicate just so we wouldn't go crazy.†
p. 310.5 *variables = things that are able to change
- All for the Variables.†
p. 312.4
- That it was yet another Variable and they'd take whomever he didn't choose.†
p. 346.6variable = able to changestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" in variable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. Note that when "-able" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "Y", the "Y" is often replaced with "I" as in enviable and deniable.
Definitions:
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(1)
(variable) able to change, or something that is able to changeA variable in mathematics refers more specifically to a symbol that represents a value or a set of values.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)