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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

The company said it is also releasing 1-bit Bonsai 4 billion parameter and 1.7 billion parameter models, with 0.5 gigabytes and 0.24 gigabytes memory footprints, and even higher intelligence density.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 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

For more than 100 years, scientists have used a system based on Atwater parameters to estimate how much energy people can obtain from food.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Instead of a trillion parameters, efficient small language models might use 70 billion and run on an Apple Mac.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 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

Beam boasts 501 billion parameters, or adjustable numerical values.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 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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