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Parameter

//pəˈɹæm.ə.tɚ// noun

Noun

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A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
"As molecular surface-to-surface contacts control both solution phenomena and surface phenomena, it is not surprising that various correlations of cohesion parameters and surface phenomena can be found."
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a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves wordnet
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A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
"Cohesion parameters (solubility parameters) can be used with full theoretical justification to characterize many surfaces ..."
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a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data wordnet
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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.

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(computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program wordnet
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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.
"The parameter estimation problem considered in this chapter consists of estimating the unknown parameter, ū [a barred v, actually], given N samples of the observation process."
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any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance wordnet
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An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.
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An actual value given to such a formal parameter. broadly
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A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
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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.
"The parameter of the principal axis of a conic section is called the latus rectum."
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Clipping of uniformizing parameter. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
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The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
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The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.

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

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