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"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

They also note that every parameter in the VLE carries significant uncertainty, much like the Drake Equation.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 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

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

Open-weight models allow anyone to download the numerical values, called weights, for each of the billions of parameters stored in their machine minds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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

The preview version of the Qwen3.8 Max, the company’s latest flagship large language model, boasts 2.4 trillion parameters, and is available on Alibaba’s coding platforms, the Hangzhou-based company said in a post on X.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

While this makes Kimi K3 efficient to run, the requirement to hold 2.8 trillion parameters in active memory means the model would be difficult for enterprises to run on their own servers, Sen told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Each zone had a unique combination of rules and parameters.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline