parameter vs quality

parameter

noun
  • A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others. 

  • An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time. 

  • The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane. 

  • A variable that describes some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof. 

  • The fundamental axial ratio for a given species. 

  • An actual value given to such a formal parameter. 

  • A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm. 

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

  • Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population. 

  • 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. 

quality

noun
  • Something that differentiates a thing or person. 

  • The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like. 

  • A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content. 

  • Level of excellence. 

  • The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items. 

  • In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture. 

adj
  • Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose; of high quality. 

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