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parameter /pa·ram·e·ter/ (pah-ram´e-ter) 1. a constant that distinguishes specific cases, having a definite fixed value in one case but different values in other cases. 2. in statistics, a value that specifies one of the members of a family of probability distributions, such as the mean or standard deviation. 3. a variable whose measure is indicative of a quantity or function that cannot itself be directly determined precisely.
parameter (p n the values that refer to a population; characteristics of a population. Because a parameter is a value of a hypothetical, infinite, unknown population, it is always an estimate. Paramyxoviridae n one of the major ribonucleic acid virus families, to which the measles, mumps, parainfluenza, and respiratory syncytial viruses belong. Viruses in this family have a single-stranded, nonsegmented, linear molecular structure with helical symmetry. parameter 1. in mathematics and statistics, an arbitrary constant, such as a population mean or standard deviation. It wholly or partly determines a probability distribution. 2. a property of a system that can be measured numerically. |
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The artist who best found his balance--a taut, energetic bond between the formal parameters of dance and the rhythm of contemporary life--was twenty-seven-year-old Robert Henry Johnson, whose own dancing is as light and insouciant as an angel and as sassy as a bad boy. |
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