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VARYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does varying mean? 

VARYING (adjective)
  The adjective VARYING has 1 sense:

1. marked by diversity or differenceplay

  Familiarity information: VARYING used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VARYING (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by diversity or difference

Synonyms:

variable; varying

Context example:

nature is infinitely variable

Similar:

varied (characterized by variety)


 Context examples 


She listened with great attention, and with a face that often changed, but had the same purpose in all its varying expressions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There is varying amounts of collagen in the neoplasm.

(Fibrosarcoma of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

The virus may have a branched morphology of varying length.

(Filoviridae, NCI Thesaurus)

Round cell sarcomas with varying degrees of neuroectodermal differentiation.

(Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Round cell sarcomas of soft tissue with varying degrees of neuroectodermal differentiation.

(Extraosseous Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by physical growth problems, distinct facies, and varying psycho-neurological issues.

(Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Tumors display varying degrees of glandular differentiation.

(Adenocarcinoma of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A traditional unit of volume, significantly varying depending on an item being measured.

(Keg, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized histologically by clusters and cords of epithelioid, GFAP expressing tumor cells within a stroma with varying amounts of mucin, which typically contains a lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate.

(Chordoid Glioma of the Third Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)

You will remember, Watson, he remarked one afternoon, that there is a single common point of resemblance in the varying reports which have reached us.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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