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Meaning
Noun
●
A value
kept
constant
during an
experiment
,
equation
,
calculation
, or
similar
, but
varied
over other
versions
of the
experiment
,
equation
,
calculation
, etc.
●
In Sciences & Statistics:
A
variable
that
describes
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
.
●
In Artificial intelligence & Sciences:
A
variable
that
describes
some system (material,
object
,
event
, etc.) or some
aspect
thereof.
A
variable
of a model that is
trained
by a
machine learning
algorithm.
●
In Sciences:
A
variable
that
describes
some system (material,
object
,
event
, etc.) or some
aspect
thereof.
●
In Programming:
An
input
variable
of a
function
definition
, that
gets
an
actual
value (argument) at
execution
time.
●
In Programming:
An
actual
value
given to
such a
formal
parameter.
●
A
characteristic
or
feature
that
distinguishes
something from others.
●
In 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.
●
In Crystallography:
The
ratio
of the three
crystallographic
axes
which
determines
the
position
of any plane.
●
In Crystallography:
The
fundamental
axial
ratio
for a given species.
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Wiktionary
Origin
parameter
English
paramètre
French
parametrum
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
Synonyms
Argument
Characteristic
Parametre
Formal Parameter
Actual Parameter
Related
Variable
Coefficient
Factor
Criterion
Measurement
Variables
Function
Component
Vector
Coefficients
Constant
Feature
Datatype
Attribute
Algorithm
Equation
Metric
Element
Module
Measure
Threshold
Substring
Dimension
Value
Indicator
Configuration
Input
Node
Parametric
Method
Comparator
Angle
Dataset
Criteria
Opcode
Constants
Frequency
Mechanism
Matrix
Datum
Calculation
Index
Hashtable
Iterator
Listbox
Dataframe
Ratio
Constraint
Variation
Model
Temperature
Exponent
Objective Function
Correction Factor
Regular Expression
Stored Procedure
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