Parameter (disambiguation)

A parameter [ para metɐ ː ] ( gr παρά para, ' metron and μέτρον, measure ' next ) is:

A characterizing property, a characteristic or key figure: in mathematics a special variable, see parameter (mathematics );
In geometry, a parameter of a conic section;
In the technology and engineering a particular property of technical systems or components, see Design ( art);
In music, the properties of the individual sound or compositional characteristics in a piece of music, see musical parameters;

A manipulated variable or an influencing factor, which acts from the outside on an observed object: in the computer science an argument that is passed to a program or subroutine, see parameter ( computer science ) and command line parameters;
In linguistics as a control system of Transformations-/Universalgrammatik, see Parameters (linguistics)
In analytic geometry, the variables of the parameter representation;
In a statistics of usually several scalar quantities, which together define the distribution class of the exact form of the probability distribution, refer to parameters ( statistics);
Diverse in chemical reaction-specific intensive or extensive variables for conditions that affect chemical reactions; see chemical equilibrium to parameters that affect the chemical balance.