Unpredictable, erratic or fickle; mercurial.
To overlay with quicksilver.
To treat with quicksilver.
The metal mercury.
An amalgam of mercury and tin applied to the backs of mirrors, quicksilvering.
Able to vary or be varied.
Having no fixed quantitative value.
Likely to vary.
Marked by diversity or difference.
Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
A variable star.
A symbol representing a variable.
Something that is variable.
Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.