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Categories: Subroutines, Variable (computer science)
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argument  parameter  actual parameter  actual parameters  formal argument
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(computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program WordNet 3.0
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(computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In computer programming, a parameter or a formal argument is a special kind of variable used in a subroutine to refer to one of the pieces of data provided as input to the subroutine. Wikipedia
Special kind of variable Wikipedia Disambiguation
Variable in computer programming; special kind of variable, used in a subroutine to refer to one of the pieces of data provided as input to the subroutine. These pieces of data are called arguments Wikidata
1) A quantity in an equation which must be specified beside the independent variables to obtain the solution for the dependent variables. 2) A quantity which is constant under a given set of conditions, but may be different under other conditions. OmegaWiki
A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function. Wiktionary
An input variable of a procedure definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time (formal parameter). Wiktionary
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Parameters are like labeled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks. Wiktionary
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. Wiktionary