Associations to the word «Variate»

Wiktionary

VARIATE, noun. A measurable quantity capable of taking on a number of values.
VARIATE, noun. A variable, often the set of x values plotted on a graph.
VARIATE, verb. (transitive) To alter; or vary; to make different.

Dictionary definition

VARIATE, noun. A variable quantity that is random.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope