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The correct spelling is parameter.
How to pronounce parameter
IPA: /pəˈɹæm.ɪ.tə/
Say it like: Par-ame-ter
The correct spelling is parameter. A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc. For example: "Roughly, a tuple of arguments could be thought of as a vector, whereas a tuple of parameters could be thought of as a covector (i.e., linear functional). When a function is called, a parameter tuple becomes "bound" to an argument tuple, allowing the function instance itself to be computed to yield a return value. This would be roughly analogous to applying a covector to a vector (by taking their dot product (or, rather, matrix-product of row vector and column vector)) to obtain a scalar."
Usage Examples
“Roughly, a tuple of arguments could be thought of as a vector, whereas a tuple of parameters could be thought of as a covector (i.e., linear functional). When a function is called, a parameter tuple becomes "bound" to an argument tuple, allowing the function instance itself to be computed to yield a return value. This would be roughly analogous to applying a covector to a vector (by taking their dot product (or, rather, matrix-product of row vector and column vector)) to obtain a scalar.”
“The parameter of the principal axis of a conic section is called the latus rectum.”
Definition
noun
- 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 some system (material, object, event etc.) or some aspect thereof
- 3.An input variable of a procedure definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time (formal parameter).
- 4.An actual value given to such a formal parameter (argument or actual parameter).
- 5.A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
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