parâmetro — 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.
• yardstick noun A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.

Senses

parâmetro is used for these senses in English:

• yardstick (figuratively) A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.

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.

yardstick — full definition

1. noun A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.
2. noun A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.

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