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What is a parameter?

What is a parameter? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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
  3. (programming) An input variable of a procedure definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time (formal parameter).
  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.
  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.
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