parameter

IPA: pɝˈæmʌtɝ

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.

Examples of "parameter" in Sentences

A parameter is included to update the local cache.
The more interesting Kantian parameter is that youve got protuberant hippo eyes, Matthew.
The title parameter can receive UTF-8 text as well (e.g. clipboard's content retrieved with Transform):
If the value of documentTitle is empty, then an empty string is used for the title parameter on the URL.
'Here we extend the term parameter to cover global or @ 1986 ACM O-89791-197-O/86/0600-0152 75C imported variables.
ABCfunction () if [SomeConditionIsTrue] then echo "1" else echo "0" fi parameter = "Cool" flag = ` ABCfunction $parameter `
The - ar parameter is the quality of the audio, and the extension of the filename on the last parameter tells ffmpeg what format to convert the file into.
Moscow reported that the root cause of the observed strong structural oscillations was an error in parameter settings uploaded to the SM engine gimballing control system, which then caused a malfunction of a dynamic (frequency) control filter.
Pagkalos also provided more detail on the redirect that Mox implemented over the weekend, noting that the attack used an IFRAME injected into the title parameter of a personal group -- another social networking feature of the Obama site -- that then let Mox remotely call some malicious JavaScript.