parameter
IPA: pɝˈæmʌtɝ
noun
- A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
- (sciences) A variable that describes some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
- (statistics) Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.
- (machine learning) A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm.
- (programming) An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.
- (programming, loosely) An actual value given to such a formal parameter.
- A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
- (geometry) In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
- (crystallography) The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
- (crystallography) The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
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Examples of "parameter" in Sentences
- The second parameter refines the search.
- The parameter traces the length of the rod.
- The template uses the following parameters.
- Capitalization of the parameters is unimportant.
- It simply defines the parameters of the inquiry.
- The parameter is the name of the nominated template.
- The change is required due to the renaming of the parameter.
- The adjustment is made to maximize the value of the parameter.
- Is the underlying parameter the same as the underlying variable
- The adjustment is such as to maximize the value of the parameter.