متغيرات

[Interprete]

Hello,

I'd like to know what the usual meaning of متغيرات is, in mass media speak. I know it means 'variables' in science, but the contexts I hear this word in do not match the meaning of 'variables'.
Is it used as a synonym of تطورات with a nuance of unpredictability?

I'm sorry I don't have any specific context to offer, I have just heard this word so many times on al-Jazeera, al-Arabiya, etc. and never really got the idea. Only that it couldn't be translated as 'variables' in any of those instances.

Thanks!

 

[barkoosh]

I think it's the same as التغيرات, that is, "changes". One dictionary suggests, "new conditions".