parameter

Example Sentences

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“The exchange rate is not a trigger parameter for the ECB.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

By the yardstick of its own goals, the nation’s second-largest school system is likely to fall short by nearly every parameter — taking in sample measures of literacy, math and social emotional learning.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

"This would require moving away from simply using caste as the parameter for redistribution of available resources, to use of both caste and income levels in policymaking."

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

In this model, a parameter known as α emerges when the coupling constants -- the quantities describing the strength of fundamental forces -- are allowed to evolve.

From Science Daily • Nov. 6, 2025

So they use parameter to mean a boundary, a characteristic, a component, an element, a feature, an ingredient, a part, a perimeter, a quality, or a requirement.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner