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An iron-core coil whose inductance can be varied or modified over a wide range by changing a small DC control current.

1. Proteins which can be divided into distinct electrophoretic components because of the variations in their mobilities.
2. Physical and biochemical characteristics of an organism as determined by the interaction of its genetic constitution and the environment of the different proteins which are separable into distinct electrophoretic components because of the differences in mobilities.

One example is erythrocyte acid phosphatase.

The term erythrocyte refers to a blood cell that carries oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues; while, the term phosphatase is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis and synthesis of phosphoric acid esters (organic compounds that can react with water to produce an alcohol and an organic or inorganic acid) and the transfer of phosphate groups from phosphoric acid to other compounds.

The changes in the earth's magnetic field occurring over hundreds of years and caused by internal changes in the earth or a variation of any field or parameter which occurs over hundreds of years.

1. Temporal or short-time changes in the geomagnetic field, both long-term (secular) and short-term (transient).
2. Any change that happens to the geomagnetic field, either short or long term.

In biology, the genetic phenomenon of mutation, implying a constant change in the genotypical structure of an organism.

1. Not changing; constant; uniform; continually occurring; persistent.
2. Never changing; always staying the same; unchanging in nature, value, or extent.

1. In every case or on every occasion; that is, always.
2. Not changing or subject to change; constant.

1. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or to withhold information.
2. To avoid giving a direct and honest answer or opinion, or a clear and truthful account of a situation, especially by quibbling or being deliberately ambiguous or misleading.
3. To stray from or to evade the truth; to equivocate: "As a witness under oath, she didn't prevaricate but answered honestly."
4. To speak falsely or misleadingly.
5. To deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; to lie.

1. The deliberate act of deviating from the truth.
2. Intentionally vague or ambiguous; equivocation.
3. A statement which deviates from or perverts the truth.
4. The avoidance of telling the truth or of saying exactly what one really thinks.
5. The deliberate act of deviating from the truth; lying.
6. Etymology: from about 1382, "divergence from a right course, transgression", from Old French prevaricacion, from Latin prævaricationem, "a stepping out of line (of duty or behavior)"; from prævaricatus, a form of prævaricari, "to make a sham accusation, to deviate"; literally, "to walk crookedly", from prae, "before" + varicare, "to straddle", from varicus "straddling", from varus, "bowlegged, knock-kneed".

1. Someone who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
2. A person who speaks falsely; a liar.
3. Anyone who speaks so as to avoid the precise truth; a quibbler; an equivocator.