Parameter

a parameter [pa'rametər] is:

• either a characterizing characteristic, a characteristic:
  • in mathematics generally any, but held variable - see parameter (mathematics);
    • in geometry that parabola chord, perpendicularly to the axle and by thatFocus goes; it is 4mal longer than the distance between focus and parabola vertex - see parabola (mathematics);
  • in the technology and/or. the engineering determined characteristics of technical plants - see construction (technology);
  • in the music the characteristics of the particularClay/tone as well as the combination samples in a music piece, resulting from it - see musical parameters;

• or a dependence on certain - outside of the regarded object lying - conditions, a steuergrösse, a factor of influence:
  • in computer science:
    • an argument, oneSubroutine is handed over - see parameter (computer science);
    • a delivery of closer data with the use of instructions in operating systems - see command line parameters;
  • in analytic geometry the variable of the parametric representation;
  • in the statistics one from usually several scalarSizes of, those together with the distribution class the exact form of a probability distribution specify - see parameter (statistics).

Wiktionary: Parameter - word origin, synonyms and translations

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