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Using measured local wind and ice conditions, along with just one additional parameter that had little effect on the overall outcome, the model successfully reproduced three observations that had previously been difficult to explain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Then, pick activities that fit within that parameter.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

In other words, different physical processes can produce very similar observable signatures, making it challenging for the AI to correctly identify which parameter is responsible.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 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

The law lays out a series of parameters that need to be met for an area to be defined as under stress, such as the ratio between house prices and incomes there.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

"No matter how sophisticated your controllers, in the end it's a human operator that sets the parameters for that control," Farre Kaga said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Best of all, the shocker revelation explaining the shivery occurrences is haunting and persuasive—within the wide parameters of the genre, of course.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Next time you offer to buy someone drinks — or anything, really — set the parameters first.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

"We don’t really see the creator twiddling twenty knobs to set twenty parameters to create the universe as we know it."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson