variable
Both sides agree there is year-to-year variability in hurricane activity.
Longer-lived trees evolve more slowly and show less variability in their rates of evolution.
Wide variability exists between women in the age at which menopause occurs.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Changing frequently
capricious
capriciously
capriciousness
changeable
changeful
inconsistency
inconsistent
inconsistently
inconstant
inconstantly
patchiness
patchy
ping-pong
protean
raggedly
unpredictability
unpredictable
volatility
yo-yoing
zigzag

Examples of variability

variability
The cross-covariance revealed several features of the variability that reinforced other observations.
As reported in all these studies, however, there is a fair amount of variability in speakers' intuitions of syllabification, even when dialect is controlled for.
In the past, authors stressed the greater variability of the disease's prognosis, clinical findings and cell morphology.
In other words, field agricultural production systems are more vulnerable to rainfall variability than garden production.
Differences in acculturation and socioeconomic status produced high levels of intragroup variability that hindered a straightforward application of the categorical approach.
The response variability of the simulated spike trains generated according to this model was then calculated in the same way as for the real data.
First, it is expected that a significant degree of between-individual variability will exist in the developmental trajectories of externalizing problems.
This permitted the examination of the average growth trajectories as well as the presence of individual variability about the average growth parameters.
Data from both sessions were required in order to obtain sufficient word types and production tokens to conduct a variability analysis.
It was found that with rotation the vertical variability is reduced and that two-dimensionalization, expressed by the vertical vorticity energy, is enhanced by rotation.
Results show that farm risk in this environment is in-uenced much more by prices than by weather variability.
Such variability and the presence of flagella and microtubules in their preparations make their data not comparable with ours.
In any event there is increasing interest in and recognition of the variability and historicity of hunter-gatherer societies and groups.
This study has highlighted the importance of examining the processing of accent-related variability in children with speech difficulties.
A by-product of the canonical analyses is an assessment of the between-group variability in the different canonical directions.
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