parameter

noun parameters

1. A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc. 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.
2. A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof. Cohesion parameters (solubility parameters) can be used with full theoretical justification to characterize many surfaces ...
3. Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.
4. A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm. 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.
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. The parameter of the principal axis of a conic section is called the latus rectum.
9. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of uniformizing parameter.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.