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Using measured local wind and ice conditions, along with just one additional parameter that had little effect on the overall outcome, the model successfully reproduced three observations that had previously been difficult to explain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

"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

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

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

With those basic parameters, you can work up the rest of the details, namely what exact funds you’ll be investing in and how often to switch them around by rebalancing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Koelsch provided no real parameters for Martínez Celaya, stipulating only that he wanted a “radically large-scale painting.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The series of equations we needed to work described the parameters of thrust coefficient, nozzle-throat area, combustion-chamber cross-sectional areas, and velocity of the gases predicted for any particular propellant.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam