Parameter — meaning in English

English meaning

• parameter noun A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
• variable adj Likely to change, or capable of being changed.

Senses

Parameter is used for these senses in English:

• variable (mathematics) A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.

parameter — full definition

1. noun A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
2. noun A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
3. noun Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.
4. noun A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm.

variable — full definition

1. adj Likely to change, or capable of being changed.
2. noun A factor or quantity that can change or take different values.
3. noun In programming, a named storage location that holds a value which can change while a program runs.

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