How to Use parameter in a Sentence

parameter

noun
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  • Cars are lashed to the deck via airline track that runs the parameter of the trailer.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The only parameter was that the creations had to fit through the gallery doors.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Read about the debate parameters agreed upon by the Trump and Biden campaigns — and who will get the last word.
    — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 23 June 2024
  • That was the case for the parameter that Lai and Cowen-Breen were trying to determine.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
  • In the case of Jamaica, Beryl very narrowly missed hitting the parameter that would have caused the bond to pay out.
    — Greg McKenna, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2024
  • The profile is the second parameter that the Royals use with their new slogan.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 18 Feb. 2024
  • With that, the tracker.example cookie gets passed through a URL parameter and then gets stashed as a first-party cookie on the landing page.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Once this check has been passed, the attacker will need to provide the backup nonce as well as a type parameter.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The strength of connection of each neuron to its neighbor is a parameter of the network called weight.
    — Kate Saenko, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2020
  • These were the parameters of the challenge: Three different locations for each of the three meals.
    — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The CEOs met among themselves Tuesday to set the parameters for what a deal could look like from their perspective, one source said.
    — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Using the black hole’s shadow, the team has narrowed the possible range for the parameter by a factor of 500.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 Oct. 2020
  • That’s 12 minutes of getting to know each other and exploring the parameters of each other, and of the show.
    — Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2024
  • And the way the parameters are set up now, Congress is the only entity with the authority to change that.
    — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • At around 4:30, thirty minutes before Noori Pocha opens, a line forms around the parameter of the building.
    — Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Other parameters like an aspect ratio can be added to the end of a prompt to tailor the image more closely to one’s needs.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In this model, there is a free parameter that corresponds to the value of a win relative to a draw.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The Pro likely has tens or hundreds of billions of parameters, while the Ultra may have 1 trillion or more.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The final version allows the city to move forward with such a district, but with new parameters.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Pardons live beyond the parameters of the criminal code’s black-and-white text.
    — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • That is a lot right now, other than trying to hand out advice and provide some parameters to it.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 17 July 2023
  • Each might do that and fall for her own version of J, who has all kinds of room to be his or her own thing within your parameters: good for your kid, pays the bills, happy.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
  • But if such a museum expands the parameters of history, and this one does, that’s a lot.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • These parameters can be time-based or — uniquely — event-based.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 29 July 2024
  • Imagine the center of the box to be the true value of X, Y and Z, and the tight-fitting box to be the range of our best guesses regarding each parameter by itself.
    — Ben Klemens, Scientific American, 7 July 2020
  • The most pressing topic, at least at this time, remains the timeline and parameters for when sports will return.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 9 May 2020
  • One of the parameter of service that hasn’t been confirmed is whether there will be a data cap like the other satellite providers employ.
    — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2020
  • That money came with broad parameters and a hard deadline for spending it.
    — Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2024
  • The commissions have no parameters other than that artists must visit the property at least twice: once when there are leaves on the trees and once when there aren’t.
    — Kate Dwyer, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The parameter q captures how often household members visit neighborhoods outside their own (from left to right, rarely to frequently).
    — R. Alexander Bentley, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024

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