Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 6 compound words that contain parameters. The most common are listed below. Open parameters in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 15
- actual parametersplural of actual parameter: A value supplied to a method or function, as opposed to a formal parameter.
- named parametersplural of named parameter: A parameter that is passed by name, rather than by position, in a function call.
- formal parametersplural of formal parameter: An abstract representation, typically including a name and a type, of a parameter expected to be passed to a method or function.
- lattice parametersplural of lattice parameter: Synonym of lattice constant (“a constant which describes the geometry of a unit cell in a crystal lattice”).
- passed parametersplural of passed parameter: Synonym of argument (“value or expression passed to a function”).
- rest parametersplural of rest parameter: A final parameter to a function, allowing it to accept an indefinite number of arguments as an array.
- speed parametersplural of speed parameter: speed divided by the speed of light, symbol β
- time parametersplural of time parameter: A function used to specify the maximum CPU utilization time permitted for the job to execute.
- positional parametersplural of positional parameter: a parameter that is passed by position, rather than by name, in a function call
- Hapke parametersplural of Hapke parameter: Any of a set of parameters for a quasi-experimental model used to describe the directional reflectance properties of the airless regolith surfaces of bodies in the Solar System.
- nuisance parametersplural of nuisance parameter: A parameter of the distribution of a population that is not directly relevant to solving the significance test or estimate problem under consideration.
- Coriolis parametersplural of Coriolis parameter: The equationf=2Ω sin φ.,, where Ω is the Earth's rotation rate and φ. is the latitude.
- Sommerfeld parametersplural of Sommerfeld parameter: A dimensionless quantity, denoted by η, used in nuclear astrophysics in the calculation of reaction rates between two nuclei and in the definition of the astrophysical S-factor.
- Hildebrand solubility parametersplural of Hildebrand solubility parameter: A parameter providing a numerical estimate of the degree of interaction between materials, often a good indication of solubility. Symbol δ.
- uniformizing parametersplural of uniformizing parameter: An element of a discrete valuation ring which generates the unique maximal ideal.
Compound words 6
- hyperparametersplural of hyperparameter: A parameter of a prior (as distinguished from inferred parameters of the model for the underlying system under analysis).
- macroparametersplural of macroparameter: Any relatively large parameter
- metaparametersplural of metaparameter: A parameter that controls the value of one or more others.
- microparametersplural of microparameter: Any relatively small parameter
- subparametersplural of subparameter: A subdivision of a compound parameter.
- superparametersplural of superparameter: A parameter of a prior (as distinguished from inferred parameters of the model for the underlying system under analysis).