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Live Free or Die, by John Ringo
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- There was, of course, a huge outcry amongst "real" researchers who had grants to study oxygen production of Mira Variables that, naturally, were more important than anything else that could possibly be happening especially with those bunglers at Skywa—A WHAT?†
p. 10.5 *variables = things that are able to change
- Six petabytes of variable use memory, infinite parallel processor and the size of a match head.†
p. 51.8variable = 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.
- There are too many variables to sort out.†
p. 108.1variables = things that are able to change
- It is what you Glatun would call a hunch except that it reports the results as variables.†
p. 108.1
- "I'm a specialist in oxygen production in Mira Variables," Dr. Chu said.†
p. 217.3
- And we've got a new system in design called the Variable Scaled Array.†
p. 263.4variable = 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.
- We call it the Variable Dialing Array or VDA.†
p. 406.3
- "The Variable Distributed Array," Tyler said.†
p. 409.5
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)