parameter
A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
Other meanings
A variable that describes a property or characteristic of some system (material, object, event etc.) or some aspect thereof.
Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.
Related words
- actual parameter
- Hapke parameter
- named parameter
- nuisance parameter
- positional parameter
- speed parameter
- formal parameter
- hyperparameter
- lattice parameter
- time parameter
- Sommerfeld parameter
- rest parameter
Word history
From Ancient Greek "παρα-" (beside).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “parameter” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.