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"In standard quantum mechanics, time is treated as an external, classical parameter that is not affected by the quantum system being studied," explains Curceanu.

From Science Daily ● May 3, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

Based on this parameter, you’ll see Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” is missing, but a documentary about the master of monsters himself is included.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

"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

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

Twenty-five companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft and Palantir, urged Washington not to restrict open-weight artificial-intelligence models—those whose underlying parameters anyone can download, inspect and adapt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Critics argued that it flew in the face of innocent-before-proven-guilty parameters and that the job of police was to investigate, not adjudicate.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Kimi 3 boasts 2.8 trillion parameters and, according to industry experts, outperforms all other models with the exception of Anthropic’s Fable and OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.6.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

The recovery came even as Alibaba previewed a new large-language model, Qwen3.8 Max, that it said was second only to Anthropic’s Fable 5, with 2.4 trillion parameters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

She learned to calculate the parameters necessary to fix the possible variables within the “positronic brain”; to construct “brains” on paper such that the responses to given stimuli could be accurately predicted.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov