parameter
/pəˈɹæm.ə.tɚ/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
Meaning
noun
A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
noun
A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
noun
A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
noun
A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
noun
An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.
noun
An actual value given to such a formal parameter.
noun
A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The independent parameters of a system or network over F(z) reflect its structure and determine its structural properties (such as the reducibility of coefficient matrix A and its characteristic polynomial det(λI −A), controllability and observability over F(z), etc.)."
- "On the other hand, if we have suitable data, we may be able to develop some direct computational methods for the essentially nonlinear parameter identification problems, in which fewer or even no nonlinear processes are involved."
- "Cohesion parameters (solubility parameters) can be used with full theoretical justification to characterize many surfaces ..."
- "To this end, we derive an a posteriori error estimator for the error with respect to the unknown parameter."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: paramètre, parametrum, παρα-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pəˈɹæm.ə.tɚ/
- British English: /pəˈɹæm.ɪ.tə/