One who explains. / (statistics) A variable that predicts or explains the variation in another variable; an explanatory variable.

(historical) Improvised gramophone recordings made from X-ray film, used to smuggle prohibited music into the Soviet Union.

(US politics, slang, rare, derogatory) credulous political enthusiasm for Barack Obama.

A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Кухта (Kuxta). / A transliteration of the Belarusian surname Кухта (Kuxta).