A compass of delicate construction, used in observations on the variations of the needle.

(statistics) A variable that is not directly measured but is inferred by means of a mathematical model from one or more directly observed variables.

(zoology) Of, or pertaining to, a monitor lizard.

(zoology) A monitor lizard; a member of the subfamily Varaninae.

Any variable that is part of a Bernoulli process.

plural of variety show

plural of varanine

(idiomatic) not in accord; in a state of disagreement

(astronomy) Any of a class of pulsating variable stars characterized by very red colours, pulsation periods longer than 100 days, and amplitudes greater than one magnitude in infrared and 2.5 magnitude at visual wavelengths.

A surname from Spanish.