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      parameters
      noun
      A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
      (sciences) A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
      (statistics) Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.
      (programming) An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.
      (machine learning) A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm.
      A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
      (programming, loosely) An actual value given to such a formal parameter.
      (geometry) 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.
      (crystallography) The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
      (crystallography) The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
      (commutative algebra) Clipping of uniformizing parameter. [(commutative algebra) An element of a discrete valuation ring which generates the unique maximal ideal.]
      Roots
      parapara- · Greek · beside, beyondmetron-meter · Greek · measure
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      The word parameters breaks down into 2 roots of Greek origin: para-, from Greek para (“beside, beyond”); and -meter, from Greek metron (“measure”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.

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