Definition of PARAMETER

parameter

Meanings

Plural: parameters

Noun

  • a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves
  • any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance
  • (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
  • a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data
  • A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
  • A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
  • Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.
  • A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
  • A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm.
  • A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
  • An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.
  • An actual value given to such a formal parameter.
  • A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
  • 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.
  • Clipping of uniformizing parameter.
  • The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
  • The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.

Origin / Etymology

From French paramètre, from New Latin parametrum (“parameter”), from Ancient Greek παρα- (para-, “beside”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

Synonyms

actual parameter, argument, attribute, characteristic, designation, distinction, distinctiveness, feature, formal parameter, hallmark, parameter, parametric quantity, property, quality, race, touch, trait, whatness

Scrabble Score: 13

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