Profile vs Parameter - What's the difference?
profile | parameter |
(countable) the outermost shape, view, or edge of an object
(countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
(countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
(countable) a specific space or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems
(uncountable) reputation
(uncountable) the amount by which something protrudes
(uncountable) prominence; noticeability
(archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
(architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
(civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
to create a summary or collection of information, especially about a person
to act based on such a summary; especially, to act on a stereotype. See profiling.
(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 a verb profile
is .As a noun parameter is
parameter.profile
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(wikipedia profile)Noun
- His fingers traced the profile of the handle.
- The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.
- Law enforcement assembled a profile of the suspect.
- I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged.
- Choose a handle with a low profile so it does not catch on things.
- Acting is, by nature, profession in which one must keep a high profile .
- What's the thermal profile on that thing?
Antonyms
* (print mode or selection ) portraitVerb
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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.