parameter
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Then, pick activities that fit within that parameter.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
"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
Bonsai 8B is an 8-billion parameter large language model, trained using Google v4 TPUs.
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
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
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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
Intrafamily loans establish clear parameters and legally binding terms that protect both parents and children.
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
Although the model features 501 billion parameters, it only activates 23 billion parameters per query, giving users the advantage of a large, powerful model without the high computing costs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
“Filling the refrigerator does not fall within the parameters of my responsibilities. Therefore, the lack of food therein would have no reflection upon me whatsoever.”
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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