breyta

Icelandic

Etymology

from Old Norse brjóta, from Proto-Germanic *breutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreud-.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpreiːta/
  • Rhymes: -eiːta

Noun

breyta f (genitive singular breytu, nominative plural breytur)

  1. (mathematics) variable syn.

Declension
declension of breyta
f-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative breyta breytan breytur breyturnar
accusative breytu breytuna breytur breyturnar
dative breytu breytunni breytum breytunum
genitive breytu breytunnar breyta/breytna breytanna/breytnanna

Synonyms
  • (variable): def. breytistærð, breytileg stærð

Derived terms
  • aukabreyta (“parameter”)
  • Boole-breyta (“Boolean variable”)
  • breytulaus (“variable-free”)
  • breytuskipti (“change of variables”)
  • bundin breyta (“bound variable, dummy variable”)
  • fjölbreytuaðhvarf (“multiple regression”)
  • fjölbreytufervikagreining (“analysis of dispersion, dispersion analysis, multivariate analysis of variance”)
  • fjölbreytugreining (“multivariate analysis”)
  • flokkunarbreyta (“attribute, categorical variable”)
  • frjáls breyta (“free variable”)
  • frumbreyta (“argument, independent variable”)
  • fullyrðingabreyta (“propositional variable, sentential variable”)
  • fylgibreyta (“basic variable, concomitant variable, dependent variable”)
  • fylgnar breytur (“correlated variables”)
  • færibreyta (“parameter”)
  • grannfræðileg óbreyta (“topological invariant”)
  • heildunarbreyta (“integration variable”)
  • hlaupabreyta (“parameter”)
  • háð breyta (“basic variable, dependent variable”)
  • leppbreyta (“bound variable, dummy variable”)
  • margbreytuaðhvarf (“multiple regression”)
  • margliða með mörgum breytum (“multinomial, polynomial in several variables”)
  • miðsett slembibreyta (“centralized random variable, centred random variable”)
  • málskipanarbreyta (“syntactic variable”)
  • raunbreyta (“real variable”)
  • rökbreyta (“logical variable”)
  • skýribreyta (“determining variable, predicated variable, regressor”)
  • skýringabreyta (“cause variable, explanatory variable”)
  • slakbreyta (“slack variable”)
  • slembibreyta (“aleatory variable, chance variable, random variable, stochastic variable, variate”)
  • snúningsóbreyta (“rotation invariant”)
  • stakbreyta (“individual variable, object variable”)
  • stikabreyting (“parameter change, reparametrization, transformation of parameter”)
  • stjórnbreyta (“control variable, decision variable”)
  • strjál breyta (“discrete variable”)
  • stýribreyta (“control variable, decision variable”)
  • stýrð breyta (“controlled variable”)
  • tegrunarbreyta (“integration variable”)
  • tvinnbreyta (“complex variable”)
  • tvinnbreytistærð (“complex variable”)
  • tímabreyta (“time parameter”)
  • töluóbreyta (“numerical invariant”)
  • umsagnarbreyta (“predicate variable”)
  • umsögn með mörgum breytum (“many-place predicate, multiplace predicate”)
  • yfirbreyta (“metavariable”)
  • yrðingabreyta (“propositional variable, sentential variable”)
  • ákvörðunarbreyta (“control variable, decision variable”)
  • óbreyta (“invariant”)
  • óháð breyta (“argument, independent variable”)

Verb

breyta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative breytti, supine breytt)

  1. (transitive, governs the dative, often used with í (“into”)) to change something, to modify something, to alter something
    • Judges 2:19
      En er dómarinn andaðist, breyttu þeir að nýju verr en feður þeirra, með því að elta aðra guði til þess að þjóna þeim og falla fram fyrir þeim. Þeir létu eigi af gjörðum sínum né þrjóskubreytni sinni.
      But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
    • Partý Jesús
      Jesús breytti vatni í vín,
      já, Jesús breytti vatni í vín
      hann má koma í partý til mín!
      Jesus turned water into wine,
      yes, he turned water into wine,
      he can come party with me!

Derived terms
  • breyta til (“to make a change”)
  • breyta í (“to turn into, to change into”)
  • stigbreyta (“to compare”)
  • breytast
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