parameter

Meaning

1. A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
2. A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
3. A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
4. A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
5. An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.
6. (broadly) An actual value given to such a formal parameter.
7. A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
8. 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.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of uniformizing parameter.
10. The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
11. The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.

Synonyms

limit

argument

parametric quantity

variable

boundary

bourne

clampdown

edge

focal parameter

frontier

border

limitation

limiting

limiting factor

line

par

qualification

raja

range

restraint

scope

terminal point

variation

terminus ad quem

bound

bourn

Translations

paramètre

parámetro

Parameter

parâmetro

parametro

parameter

paràmetre

παράμετρος

parametre

parâmetros

Kenngröße

paramètre

παράμετροι

Variablenübergabe

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pəˈɹæm.ɪ.tə/

Etymology

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