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digit
English
Etymology
From Middle English digit, from Latin digitus (“a fingerbreadth; a number”). Doublet of digitus.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?'j?t, IPA(key): /?d?d??t/
- Rhymes: -?d??t
Noun
digit (plural digits)
- (mathematics) The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic numerals representing them, which are combined to represent base-ten numbers.
- The number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.
- (mathematics) A distinct symbol representing one of an arithmetic progression of numbers between 0 and the radix.
- Hexadecimal numeration (Base sixteen) includes the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but also A (=10 decimal), B, C, D, E, and F. Sixteen itself is written as the two-digit number 10.
- (units of measure, astronomy) 1?12 the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse.
- A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.
- (historical units of measure) A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of 1?16 foot (about 1.9 cm).
- (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of inch.
- (anatomy) A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.
- (zoology) Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals.
- 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates
- The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.
- 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates
- (geometry, rare, obsolete) Synonym of degree: 1?360 of a circle.
Synonyms
- (numerical place): place, figure (informal, usually in discussion of money)
- (astronomical unit): finger (obsolete)
- (unit of length): finger, fingerbreadth, fingersbreadth
Hyponyms
- (extremity of the hand or foot): finger, thumb, toe
Related terms
- digits
Derived terms
- digital
- digit counter
- digitize
- digit number (obsolete)
- digit pulse
Translations
Verb
digit (third-person singular simple present digits, present participle digiting, simple past and past participle digited)
- (transitive) To point at or point out with the finger.
References
- "digit, n. and adj.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
French
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.?it/
Noun
digit m (plural digits)
- digit (number from 0-9)
Middle English
Alternative forms
- digite, digitus
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin digitus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?did?it/, /?did?itus/
Noun
digit (plural digitys)
- digit (Arabic numeral)
Descendants
- English: digit
References
- “di?it, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-21.
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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
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