parametric quantity

1. 1.

   a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves

   Synonymsparameter

   Broaderconstant

   Narrowerdegree of freedom

Questions about parametric quantity

What does parametric quantity mean?

parametric quantity means "a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves".

What is another word for parametric quantity?

Close synonyms include parameter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is parametric quantity a common word?

parametric quantity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.