varying
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
- • Simple pronunciation
1. To change with time or a similar parameter.
"He varies his magic tricks so as to minimize the possibility that any given audience member will see the same trick twice."
2. To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.
"You should vary your diet. Eating just bread will do you harm in the end."
3. Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
"His mood varies by the hour."
4. (of the members of a group) To display differences.
"The sprouting tendency of potatoes varies between cultivars, years and places of growing."
5. To be or act different from the usual.
6. To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
7. To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See variation.
8. To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension.
Synonyms
1. A kind of variable, used by a fragment shader, that interpolates values across a primitive, so as to produce gradient effects etc.
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