Element vs Parameter - What's the difference?
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One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
* (Benjamin Jowett) (1817-1893) ((Thucydides))
# (label) Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
# One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
# (label) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
# (label) One of the objects in a set.
A small part of the whole.
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A place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards.
The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
A short form of heating element, a component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
(label) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching pair of tags.
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(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 element and parameter
is that element is one of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based while parameter is a variable kept constant during an experiment, calculation or similar.element
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(wikipedia element)Noun
(en noun)- The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn.
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- The div element was introduced into HTML as a solution to the layout problem.
Synonyms
* (in chemistry) chemical element * (in set theory) memberDerived terms
* chemical element * data element * heating elementSee also
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* English terms derived from Etruscan ----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.