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abscissa
English
Etymology
By ellipsis from Latin [linea] abscissa, feminine of abscissus, perfect passive participle of abscind? (“cut off”). See abscind.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æb?s?s.?/
- Hyphenation: ab?scis?sa
Noun
abscissa (plural abscissas or abscissae or abscissæ)
- (geometry) The first of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.[First attested in the late 17th century.]
- The point has 3 as its abscissa and 2 as its ordinate.
- (geometry) The horizontal line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the abscissa (sense above) is shown.
Usage notes
Originally, it referred to the portion of a line between a fixed point on that line and the intersection of that line with an ordinate.
Synonyms
- absciss
Hypernyms
- (first of two coordinates): coordinate
- (horizontal line): axis
Coordinate terms
- ordinate
Translations
See also
- abscissa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- ordinate
- applicate
References
Latin
Etymology 1
From abscissus, perfect passive participle of abscind? (“tear away”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ab?skis.sa/, [äp?s?k?s??ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ap??is.sa/, [?p??is??]
Noun
abscissa f (genitive abscissae); first declension
- (mathematics) abscissa
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- ? English: abscissa
- ? Irish: aibsíse
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: abscisse
- ? Northern Sami: abskissa
- ? Portuguese: abscissa
- ? Italian: ascissa
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Participle
abscissa
- nominative feminine singular of abscissus
- nominative neuter plural of abscissus
- accusative neuter plural of abscissus
- vocative feminine singular of abscissus
- vocative neuter plural of abscissus
Participle
absciss?
- ablative feminine singular of abscissus
Portuguese
Noun
abscissa f (plural abscissas)
- (geometry) abscissa (first of two coordinates)
Swedish
Noun
abscissa c
- Alternative spelling of abskissa; abscissa
Declension
abscissa From the web:
- what abscissa and ordinate are measured from
- what abscissa and ordinate are measured from crossword
- abscissa what language
- abscissa what means
- what is abscissa and ordinate
- what is abscissa in maths
- what is abscissa of origin
- what is abscissa in graph
parameter
English
Alternative forms
- parametre
Etymology
From French paramètre, from New Latin parametrum (“parameter”), from Ancient Greek ???? (pará, “beside”) + ?????? (métron, “measure”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p???æm.?.t?/
Noun
parameter (plural parameters)
- A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
- (sciences) a variable that describes some system (material, object, event etc.) or some aspect thereof
- 2007, Charles M. Hansen, Hansen Solubility Parameters: A User's Handbook, Second Edition, CRC Press ?ISBN, page 113
- Cohesion parameters (solubility parameters) can be used with full theoretical justification to characterize many surfaces ...
- 2012, Wolfgang Desch, Franz Kappel, Karl Kunisch, Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems: International Conference in Maria Trost (Austria), July 15–21, 2001, Birkhäuser ?ISBN, page 41
- To this end, we derive an a posteriori error estimator for the error with respect to the unknown parameter.
- 2012, Michael Lemmon, Competitively Inhibited Neural Networks for Adaptive Parameter Estimation, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 74
- The parameter estimation problem considered in this chapter consists of estimating the unknown parameter, ? [a barred v, actually], given N samples of the observation process.
- 2007, Charles M. Hansen, Hansen Solubility Parameters: A User's Handbook, Second Edition, CRC Press ?ISBN, page 113
- (programming) An input variable of a procedure definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time (formal parameter).
- Roughly, a tuple of arguments could be thought of as a vector, whereas a tuple of parameters could be thought of as a covector (i.e., linear functional). When a function is called, a parameter tuple becomes "bound" to an argument tuple, allowing the function instance itself to be computed to yield a return value. This would be roughly analogous to applying a covector to a vector (by taking their dot product (or, rather, matrix-product of row vector and column vector)) to obtain a scalar.
- (programming) An actual value given to such a formal parameter (argument or actual parameter).
- A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
- (geometry) In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
- The parameter of the principal axis of a conic section is called the latus rectum.
- (crystallography) The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
- (crystallography) The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
Usage notes
- (the value used to instantiate the name): Some authors regard use of parameter to mean argument as imprecise, preferring that parameter refers only to the name that will be instantiated, and argument to refer to the value that will be supplied to it at runtime.
Synonyms
- (value passed to a function): argument
- (characteristic distinguishing something from others): distinguishing feature
- See also Thesaurus:characteristic
Derived terms
- actual parameter
- formal parameter
Related terms
- parametric
- parametrise, parametrize
Translations
See also
- variable
Further reading
- parameter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- parameter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin parameter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa??ra?m?t?r/, /?pa?ra??me?t?r/, /pa??ra??me?t?r/
- Hyphenation: pa?ra?me?ter
Noun
parameter m (plural parameters, diminutive parametertje n)
- a parameter
Derived terms
- parametervoorstelling
- parametrisch
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From para- +? meter
Noun
parameter m (definite singular parameteren, indefinite plural parametere or parametre or parametrer, definite plural parameterne or parametrene)
- a parameter
References
- “parameter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From para- +? meter
Noun
parameter m (definite singular parameteren, indefinite plural parameterar or parametrar, definite plural parameterane or parametrane)
- a parameter
References
- “parameter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
parameter c
- a parameter
Declension
parameter From the web:
- what parameter is being tested
- what parameters affect the zero temperature
- what parameters impact the cl and cd
- what parameter in statistics
- what parameter determines compensated shock
- what parameters are necessary for evm
- what parameters do hubble's law
- what parameters are required by binomial distribution
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