parameters

noun

Meaning

A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
A variable that describes some system (material, object, event etc.) or some aspect thereof
An input variable of a procedure definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time (formal parameter).
An actual value given to such a formal parameter (argument or actual parameter).
A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
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.

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