parameter.
A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
Meaning & usage
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.
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.
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.
The parameter of the principal axis of a conic section is called the latus rectum.
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.
Where this word comes from
From French paramètre, from New Latin parametrum (“parameter”), from Ancient Greek παρα- (para-, “beside”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”).
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