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parameter
parameter is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.
- 2noun
Specifically (Conic Sections), 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.
- 3noun
The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane; also, the fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
- 4noun
a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves
- 5noun
a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data
- 6noun
(computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
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- 7noun
any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance
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