Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

positional parameter

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English

Syllables: po-si-tion-al -pa-ram-e-ter
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

8

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a parameter that is passed by position, rather than by name, in a function call

Example Sentences

"In the function call foo(3, 6, type="bar"), there are two different positional parameters, to which are passed the values 3 and 6."

Inflected Forms

positional parameters (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

named parameter positional argument

Questions

What does positional parameter mean?: a parameter that is passed by position, rather than by name, in a function call

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