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parameter

[puh-ram-i-ter] / pəˈræm ɪ tər /


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Then, pick activities that fit within that parameter.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

AT&T’s own OTel model, which is an open model customized with telecom-specific data, was tested in 32 different variations of model type and parameter size, Markus said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

"The millimeter and submillimeter radio bands remain almost completely unexplored for SETI, so this is really about opening up a new area of parameter space to search."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

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

Amendment PRK would double the minimum amount of money set aside for the Department of Recreation and Parks by reworking the parameters of the city budget.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

There has never been an opportunity to ask Wilcox about the parameters of his role.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

While I want to caution against putting our unquestioned trust and faith in any shiny new “magic bullet,” it is clear that, within certain parameters, specialized AI programs can detect early signs of disease.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Implementing large language models has been a brute-force approach: Big, fast and expensive GPUs from Nvidia crunch a trillion parameters using massive amounts of memory housed in liquid-cooled, gigawatt-gobbling data centers, all with brute-force pricing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

I had to find an approach, figure out if we could land there, figure out the performance parameters, and tell the company what we were doing.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell


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