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variability

[vair-ee-uh-bil-i-tee]

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noun

the quality of being subject to change, especially frequent, random, or short-term change: Ensuring effective cooperation in home care is difficult because of the variability of schedules and tasks of both patients and caregivers.
On a longer time scale, climate variability translates into shortages of food and water worldwide.
Ensuring effective cooperation in home care is difficult because of the variability of schedules and tasks of both patients and caregivers.
the quality of including different kinds, or of being different from one case to the other; diversity.
Healthcare administrators noted the variability among nursing education programs and called for standardization.

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Other Word Forms

hypervariability noun
nonvariability noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of variability¹

variable ( def. ) + -ity ( def. )

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"The breakdown is systemic - it begins with planning that often doesn't account for future climate variabilities, gets exacerbated by poor execution and is compounded by weak enforcement of regulations," Mr Kukerja says.

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The company posted a net loss of $220 million in the first quarter of this year, citing weather variability and economic uncertainty.

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With climate change we can expect that we're going to see more periods of variability in weather.

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In the short term, she argued government agencies should increase and standardize the subsidies to reduce their variability.

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“Animals that inhabit shallow waters have evolved to cope with variability in environmental conditions, but in the deep sea, there's very little change in oxygen or temperature or pH across the year,” Barry said.

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