"Parameter" is a word in ENGLISH
The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which
determines the position of any plane; also, the fundamental axial ratio
for a given species.
Specifically (Conic Sections), 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.
A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose
value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface,
etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve,
surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.
What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.
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