[{"word":"parameters","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A variable that describes some system (material, object, event etc.) or some aspect thereof","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"An input variable of a procedure definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time (formal parameter).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Roughly, a tuple of arguments could be thought of as a vector, whereas a tuple of parameters could be thought of as a covector (i.e., linear functional). When a function is called, a parameter tuple becomes \"bound\" to an argument tuple, allowing the function instance itself to be computed to yield a return value. This would be roughly analogous to applying a covector to a vector (by taking their dot product (or, rather, matrix-product of row vector and column vector)) to obtain a scalar."},{"definition":"An actual value given to such a formal parameter (argument or actual parameter).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The parameter of the principal axis of a conic section is called the latus rectum."},{"definition":"The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["distinguishing","feature","argument"],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parameter","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parameters"]}]