The phrase "a variable that allows" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a variable in programming or mathematical contexts that enables or permits a certain action or function.
Example: "In this code, a variable that allows the user to input their preferences is essential for customization."
Alternatives: "a variable that enables" or "a variable that permits".
BACKGROUND: Binge drinking is a dichotomous variable that allows researchers to sort students into categories based upon a specific threshold of consumption, commonly 4 (females) or 5 (males) drinks.
Allowing the reform variable to take the value of the change in the underlying policy indicator results in a continuous variable that allows quantifying the impact of reform shocks, which would not be possible by considering a simple dummy variable instead3.
The player limit is 16 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. On the PC, in 2008 Valve updated Team Fortress 2 to include a server variable that allows up to 32 players.
To identify the primary care physicians who spoke one or more of the top five non-official languages we used the 'Other Language' variable in the 2006 Canadian Medical Directory, a string variable that allows physicians to input up to three languages.
According to the above, the years spent in the destination country can be considered a stand-alone variable that allows us to inquire whether immigrants exploit an opportunity or face a state of necessity (Fregetto 2004; Volery 2007; Shinnar and Young 2008).
In contrast, is this experiment consistency is the dependent variable that allows us to establish maps of absolute certainty.
The option (preset = variable) that allows rates to differ across partitions was used with the "unlink" command.
However, comparative genomics has changed this view, indicating that indeed the main variable that allows adaptation to different niches is the presence of variable gene pools in different strains.
The banded age at each assessment was treated as a categorical variable that allowed milk-group differences to be tracked across time without any assumption as to the nature of the trend.
