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