variability

//ˌveəriəˈbɪləti//
C1Frequency Level 10Formal
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Noun

variabilitySingular
variabilitiesPlural
1

The quality or state of being variable; the tendency to change or fluctuate.

The variability of weather patterns makes it difficult to predict storms.

2

The degree to which something differs from a standard or from other instances.

The variability in test scores among students was higher than expected.

3

In statistics, a measure of the dispersion or spread of data points in a dataset.

The variability in the test scores was measured using standard deviation.

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