- something that decides or limits the way in which something can be done
- to set/define the parameters
- We had to work within the parameters that had already been established.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryParameter is used after these nouns:- performance
Word Originmid 17th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek para- ‘beside’ + metron ‘measure’.Definitions on the go
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