| French | English |
| champ de longueur variable | variable-length field (In a record, a field that can vary in length according to how much data it contains) |
| consommation variable | variable consumption (Specification that the volume or quantity of a component used in a finished item is proportional to the number of items produced or reported as finished) |
| consommation variable de matériel | variable material consumption (The time-based quantity of material resource to be used in an assignment. A variable consumption indicates that the amount of material that is used changes if the task duration or assignment length changes) |
| coût variable | variable cost (A cost that varies based on production or sales volume) |
| dimension variable | changing dimension (A dimension that has a flexible member structure, and is designed to support frequent changes to structure and data) |
| grille variable | variable grid (Grid lines that change as you change the magnification of a drawing. When you zoom in, grid lines are closer together. When you zoom out, grid lines are farther apart) |
| inférence de type de variable locale | local type inference (A process in which the compiler infers the type of a local variable that is declared with the var keyword in C or without an As clause in Visual Basic. The compiler infers the type of the variable from the type of the initializer expression) |
| initialiseur de variable | variable initializer (An assignment statement that is executed when the variable's class is initialized) |
| lire à vitesse variable | scrub (To move the timeline playhead manually in order to preview an animation storyboard) |
| poids variable | catch weight (The actual or nominal weight of a sales item or inventory item) |
| prime variable | variable award (An individual provision of some form of variable compensation) |
| rémunération variable | variable compensation (Compensation, contingent on discretion, performance, or results, that is awarded to an employee by an organization) |
| variable au niveau du module | module-level variable (A variable that's declared in the Declarations section of a module by using the Private keyword. These variables are available to all procedures in the module) |
| variable automatique | automatic variable (A shell variable that is always available as part of a Monad session ($?, $true, etc)) |
| variable de configuration | configuration variable (A variable that specifies a testing requirement, such as a hardware or software requirement. Each configuration variable has a set of allowable values associated with it.) |
| variable de matrice | array variable (A variable that can contain a series of values) |
| variable de niveau procédure | procedure-level variable (A variable that is declared within a procedure. Procedure-level variables are always private to the procedure in which they are declared) |
| variable de portée | range variable (A variable that provides access to each element in a sequence in a LINQ query) |
| variable de préférence | preference variable (A variable that customizes the behavior of Windows PowerShell) |
| variable de requête | query variable (A variable that stores a query, as opposed to the results of a query) |
| variable de stockage | backing variable (A private variable that holds the value of a property. The property's Get and Set procedures access the backing field) |
| variable d'environnement | environment variable (One of a set of dynamic values maintained by the operating system that provides configuration and status information) |
| variable d'initialisation | initialization variable (" A variable whose value determines a desired behavior. For example, "Append_EOL Initialization Variable" specifies Yes if all text files must end with an end-of-line character, and No (default) if an end-of-line character is not needed for text files.") |
| variable globale | global variable (A variable that is accessible from anywhere in a program) |
| variable locale implicitement typée | implicitly typed local variable (A local variable whose type is inferred from the expression that initializes the variable) |
| variable objet | object variable (A variable that contains a reference to an object) |
| variable personnalisée | custom variable (A variable provided by package developers) |
| variable projetée | splatted variable (A variable passed as a command argument where the variable sigil "$" has been replaced with " |
| variable publique | public variable (A variable you declare with the Public keyword in the Declarations section of a module. A public variable can be shared by all the procedures in every module in a database) |
| variable système | system variable (A variable provided by DTS) |
| vitesse de transmission variable | variable bit rate (A characteristic of a data stream in which the bit rate fluctuates, depending upon the complexity of the data) |