Configuration vs Parameter - What's the difference?
configuration | parameter |
Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing's shape; figure; form factor.
Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.
The way things are arranged or put together in order to achieve a result.
(physics, chemistry) The arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure like a crystal.
A finite set of points and lines (and sometimes planes), generally with equal numbers of points per line and equal numbers of lines per point.
(mathematics, physics) A variable kept constant during an experiment, calculation or similar.
(programming) An input variable of a procedure definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time (formal parameter) .
(programming) An actual value given to such a formal parameter (argument or actual parameter) .
A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
(geometry) 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.
(crystallography) The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
(crystallography) The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
As nouns the difference between configuration and parameter
is that configuration is form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing's shape; figure; form factor while parameter is a variable kept constant during an experiment, calculation or similar.configuration
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(wikipedia configuration)Noun
(en noun)parameter
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Alternative forms
* parametreNoun
(en noun)- Roughly, a tuple of arguments could be thought of as a vector, whereas a tuple of parameters''' could be thought of as a covector (i.e., linear functional). When a function is called, a '''parameter tuple becomes "bound" to an argument tuple, allowing the function instance itself to be computed to yield a return value. This would be roughly analogous to applying a covector to a vector (by taking their dot product (or, rather, matrix-product of row vector and column vector)) to obtain a scalar.
- The parameter of the principal axis of a conic section is called the latus rectum.