"dependent variable" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dependent variables [plural]
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  1. (algebra) In an equation, the variable whose value depends on one or more variables in the equation. Categories (topical): Algebra, Functions, Statistics Coordinate_terms: control variable, independent variable Translations (in algebra): variable dependent [feminine] (Catalan), závislá proměnná [feminine] (Czech), riippuva muuttuja (Finnish), variable dépendante [feminine] (French), függő változó (Hungarian), variabile dipendente [feminine] (Italian), taurangi whakamauru (Maori), variável dependente (Portuguese), variabilă dependentă (Romanian), зави́симая переме́нная (zavísimaja pereménnaja) [feminine] (Russian), závislá [feminine] (Slovak), variable dependiente [feminine] (Spanish), beroende variabel [common-gender] (Swedish), disarilining aligin (Tagalog), ตัวแปรตาม (Thai), bağımlı değişken (Turkish), newidyn dibynnol [masculine] (Welsh) Translations (in sciences): مُتَغَيِّر تَابِع (mutaḡayyir tābiʕ) (Arabic), závislá proměnná [feminine] (Czech), riippuva muuttuja (Finnish), abhängige Variable [feminine] (German), variabel terikat (Indonesian), variabilă dependentă [feminine] (Romanian), зави́симая переме́нная (zavísimaja pereménnaja) [feminine] (Russian), disarilining aligin (Tagalog), newidyn dibynnol [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. (sciences) An outcome measured to see the effectiveness of the treatment. Categories (topical): Sciences
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.