parameter
Parameter ([ paˈraːmetɐ ], ancient Greek παρά para "next to" and μέτρον metron "measure") stands for:
- in mathematics, physics, technology in general the parameters, see coefficient
- in analysis a special group of variables in an equation, see parameters (mathematics)
- in analytical geometry especially the variables of the parametric representation
- in the geometry in particular one of the parameters of a conic section, see conic section
- in the statistics one of the variables that define a probability distribution, see parameters (statistics)
- in design engineering the parameters of an object to be constructed, see e.g. CAD #Parametric Modeling
- in programming an argument that is passed to a program or subroutine, see parameters (computer science)
- in chemistry various reaction-specific intensive or extensive quantities, see chemical equilibrium
- the properties of the individual tone or compositional parameters in a piece of music, see parameters (music)
- in linguistics as the rule system of transformation / universal grammar, see parameters (linguistics)
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Wiktionary: parameters - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations