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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

In a notice in the Federal Register published Friday, BIS said the rule eliminates wind gust tolerance as a control parameter and removes national security licensing requirements for drones with capabilities lasting under three hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Bonsai 8B is an 8-billion parameter large language model, trained using Google v4 TPUs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

This parameter controls how predictable or adventurous the generated responses are.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 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

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

"By controlling the parameters of the laser, you can control the characteristics of the plasma filament -- including its length," says Darshni.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

Competition in telecom tends to turn on relatively familiar parameters such as marketing, pricing and network quality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The new model lets users download and customise the parameters, or "weights", that determine how it computes to their own servers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

He’d never got around to filling in his sister on the mission parameters.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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