variate

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: var=i=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

variate, v. t. & i. [L. variatus, p. p. of variare. See Vary.].

 To alter; to make different; to vary.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

variate, n. Statistics 1 a quantity having a numerical value for each member of a group.
2 a variable quantity, esp. one whose values occur according to a frequency distribution.

Etymology

past part. of L variare (as VARY)