How to Use parameter in a Sentence
parameter
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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 | Mheim@al.com, 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 | Tgreen@al.com, 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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