Variable (computer science)

storage location paired with a name, which contains a value

in computer programming, special kind of variable that holds data that was passed as an argument to a subroutine

variable in a computer program that is visible throughout the program, unless shadowed

Computer programming, a variable only usable in a portion of a program (the scope)

in computer languages, a variable that has been allocated statically so that its lifetime is the entire run of the program (as opposed to shorter-lived automatic variables and dynamically allocated variables)

class member variable with a single value across all instances

class member variable with separate per-instance values

placeholder term used in computer science

assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable

in some programming languages (C, C++, C#, Java), a variable specially marked to disable optimizations because its value may change between accesses even if it does not appear to be modified; primarily used in hardware access and in threading

stack-allocated variable that is automatically deallocated upon leaving the scope in which it was declared

memory management method that uses static or global memory local to a thread

computer program variable of undefined value

variable intrinsic to objects in object-oriented programming

computer programming

in programming language theory, a variable that is not defined in the local scope

a variable in an inner scope hiding an identically named variable in an outer scope