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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of variety (frequent in botany and zoölogy); of variant (so used in this work).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • abbreviation programming variable
  • abbreviation statistics variance
  • noun physics A unit of electrical power, in an AC circuit, equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere
  • noun (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups

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Examples

  • It's more so one can feel comfortable with something like this: var = "` cat myscript. sh `" echo "$var" The default is to disable variable parsing (except whitespace), and

    LinuxQuestions.org Paavo 2010

  • If the optional left-hand-side of a redirection is of the form {var}, the shell assigns the file descriptor used to $var or uses $var as the file descriptor to move or close, depending on the redirection operator.

    LinuxTOY 2010

  • * Depending on your version of GD, this should be specified as the pixel size (GD1) or point size (GD2) * @var int var $font_size = 18;

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community DarkBerzerk™ 2010

  • I found severe warnings about eval ( "evil") security, is the above line particularly dangerous? var = "hello; ls" echo "$var" eval echo "$var" Just be careful where your input comes from.

    LinuxQuestions.org Paavo 2010

  • Here is the stand alone code: for var in arg1 arg2 arg3 do echo $var mkdir mydir5 [$var] cd mydir5 [$var] touch myfile5. txt cd done

    LinuxQuestions.org 2009

  • Kind of unusual to have a single percent sign but it is documented somewhere. count = NewVarContents var = \% count msgbox \% var\%; variable now is NewVarContents

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • May be it could be better to have a conversion routine instead of a format statement that only works on direct output (e.g. Msgbox) like var: = 81.123456789 string: = ConvDecimal (\% var\%, 0.2) "Dollar"

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • MsgBox You clicked on % var% if (var = "Cancel" or var = "Close")

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • Kind of unusual to have a single percent sign but it is documented somewhere. count = NewVarContents var = \% count msgbox \% var\%; variable now is NewVarContents

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • May be it could be better to have a conversion routine instead of a format statement that only works on direct output (e.g. Msgbox) like var: = 81.123456789 string: = ConvDecimal (\% var\%, 0.2) "Dollar"

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

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