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parameter
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computer programming , a parameter is a special kind of variable , used in a subroutine to refer to one of the pieces of data provided as input to the subroutine. These pieces of data are called arguments . An ordered list of parameters is usually included ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parameter \Pa*ram"e*ter\, n. [Pref. para- + -meter: cf. F. param[`e]tre.] A constant number which is part of a theory, function, or calculation, whose value is not determined by the form of the theory or equation itself, and may in some cases be arbitrary ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s in geometry, from Modern Latin parameter (1630s), from Greek para- "beside, subsidiary" (see para- (1)) + metron "measure" (see meter (n.2)).\n \nA geometry term until 1920s when it yielded sense of "measurable factor which helps to define a particular ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context mathematics physics English) A variable kept constant during an experiment, calculation or similar. 2 (context programming English) An input variable of a procedure definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time ''(formal ...
Usage examples of parameter.
C program to compute and plot the analemma for various different orbital parameters.
Much of Crescent City was made of ultralight, ultrastrong buckyball material, material that responded quickly, although within preset parameters, to requests for change.
Carpenter would have to do up a complete outplacement document, fully outlining the parameters of his official responsibilities here, before he would be free to make the changeover to his new job.
Where ravines are he has plumbed lines to bring them to order and know them, has marked them and annotated his drawings, and learning the parameters of the peneplain or open-sided corries, the tributary canyons, creeks, rivers and fern-scruffed pampas, he has made them beautiful.
The annual fluctuation in natural phytoplankton density appeared to be very slight, providing a good set of parameters to begin studying the curious interaction between Ulva morina and Thiouni.
Within the strict parameters of Syrian control, Lebanon has a fairly vibrant pluralistic system.
Atmospheric recycler rates were predetermined: they were fixed parameters.
The base mass parameter was bad enough, the recycler rates even worse.
In addition, the throughput on the unit exceeded the parameters of the superconductive circuitry, and waste heat raised the case temperature to over two hundred degrees Celsius.
That mission did not necessarily match the mission parameters of Adler and his PRF.
There is nothing your world can do to harm me, other than hinder my parameters and areas of exploration and scientific discovery.
Radon introduced a biaxiality parameter B that relates the magnitude of the T stress as in equation 5.
Of course, she was physiologically different from most of the Cincinnatians, though the exact parameters of the differences were something that she did not especially want to explore.
The last time the fact that the civ sensors work on slightly different parameters let them see a shuttle that was hiding from our own sensors and warn us.
But as a human being whose parameters of vision and understanding were being expanded by the expanding age in which he played a central role, he could appreciate the tangled drives, so unlike his own, which motivated these two young men.