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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)

1. A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (programming) An actual value given to such a formal parameter (argument or actual parameter).
5. A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
6. (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.

7. (crystallography) The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
8. (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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. a parameter

References

• “parameter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

parameter c

1. a parameter

Declension

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Res

Symbol

res

1. (mathematical analysis) residue

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??z/ (noun, verb)
• Rhymes: -?z
• IPA^(key): /?e?z/ (noun form)
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophones: raise, rase, rays, raze, rehs, réis

Noun

res

1. plural of re

Noun

res (plural reses)

1. (Canada, US, informal) Clipping of reservation.

   Synonym: (Indian reserve or reservation) rez

2. (Canada, South Africa) Clipping of residence.
3. (computing) Clipping of resolution (of a computer display or image).

   Coordinate term: hi-res

4. Clipping of reservoir (from computer water cooling).
5. (role-playing games) Clipping of resurrection.

Verb

res (third-person singular simple present reses, present participle ressing, simple past and past participle ressed)

1. (role-playing games) short form of resurrect

Anagrams

• -ers, ERS, ERs, ESR, RSE, SER, SRE, ers, ser, ser.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?r?s/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?r?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?res/
• Rhymes: -es

Etymology 1

From Latin r?s (“thing”). Compare French rien.

Pronoun

res

1. nothing
2. (in negative sentences) anything

Alternative forms

• re
• rès (obsolete)

Derived terms

• de res
• no-res

Etymology 2

Noun

res

1. plural of re

Further reading

• “res” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “res” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “res” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “res” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin r?s (“thing”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?res/

Noun

res f (plural reses)

1. head of quadrupedal cattle or game
2. flock, herd; cattle
   • 1355, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 168:

     os quaes me pagastes en dineiros et en res

     which you paid me in money and in cattle

Pronoun

res

1. (rare or dated) nothing (in negative sentences)

   Synonym: nada

Related terms

• ren
• rexelo

Etymology 2

Plural of re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?res/

Noun

res m pl

1. plural of re

Etymology 3

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese r?es (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin r?nes (“kidneys”). Cognate with Template:kw.

Alternative forms

• rens

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?res/

Noun

res m pl

1. small of the back
   • 1409, G. Pérez Barcala (ed.), A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus. Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 191:

     reerás primeiramente os lombos ou as r?es do cavalo

     you will first shave the horse's back and the smalls of the back

   Synonyms: cadrís, lombo

Derived terms

• derrear

Related terms

• ril

References

• “re_es” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “r?es” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “res” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “res” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “res” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Etymology

For the expected *r?s, remodelled on a new oblique stem *r?j-, from Proto-Italic *reis, from Proto-Indo-European *reh?ís (“wealth, goods”).

Cognate to Old Persian [Term?] (/r?y-/, “paradise, wealth”), Avestan ????????????-? (r?y-, “paradise, wealth”), Sanskrit ?? (raí, “property. wealth”), ??? (rayí, “stuff, material, property, goods”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re?s/, [re?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /res/, [r?s]

Noun

r?s f (genitive re?); fifth declension

1. thing, object, stuff

2. matter, issue, subject, topic
   • a. 149 BC, Cato the Elder (attributed quote)

3. affair, event
4. story, history
5. state, republic, commonwealth
   • c. early 5th century AD, attributed to Ennius by Augustinus in De Civitate Dei; Book II, Chapter XXI

6. deed
7. circumstances

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• re?pse
• reus
• r?cula/r?scula
• rem ac? tetigist?
• r?s, n?n verba (“deeds, not words”)
• re?lis
• r?s adi?dic?ta
• r?s pr?v?ta
• r?s p?blica/r?sp?blica
• r?s i?dic?ta
• in medi?s r?s

Descendants

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “r?s”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 100, page 287

Further reading

• res in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• res in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• res in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• res in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• res in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• res in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• res in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?res/, [?res]

Etymology 1

From Latin r?s (“thing”).

Noun

res f (plural reses)

1. head of quadrupedal cattle or game
2. (Latin America) bovine animal

Derived terms

• pancita de res
• resero

Etymology 2

Plural of re.

Noun

res m pl

1. plural of re

Further reading

• “res” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Verb

res

1. imperative of resa

Anagrams

• ers, ser

Westrobothnian

Etymology

cf Old Norse hreistr, Norwegian reist

Noun

res n or m

1. guts; offal, scales of fish

Related terms

• fiskres
• rees
• rest

Wolof

Noun

res (definite form res wi)

1. liver