parameter
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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
"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 demonstrated that interference between the bright and dark modes could be handled as a single integrated design parameter.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
By the yardstick of its own goals, the nation’s second-largest school system is likely to fall short by nearly every parameter — taking in sample measures of literacy, math and social emotional learning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 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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"But when we used the same parameters as original impact modeling - down to the equal temperature structures inside both bodies - within around five hours, an intact moon emerged."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
The law lays out a series of parameters that need to be met for an area to be defined as under stress, such as the ratio between house prices and incomes there.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
For four quarters, offense, defense and special teams inflict maximum damage within the precisely bounded parameters of the game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The sound of the band is an anomaly, even within the obscure parameters of underground Latin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The Adams presidency, in fact, might be the classic example of the historical truism that inherited circumstances define the parameters within which presidential leadership takes shape, that history shapes presidents, rather than vice versa.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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