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parameter
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Wikipedia
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A parameter is a quantity which changes characteristics of a system or a function. The term is used in this way in many mathematical sciences . The term may also have the following meanings: Parameter (computer programming) Parameters (journal) , a journal ...
Wiktionary
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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 ...
WordNet
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n. a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves [syn: parametric quantity ] any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes ...
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 ...
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.