The difference between Argument and Parameter
When used as nouns, argument means a fact or statement used to support a proposition, whereas parameter means a value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
Argument is also verb with the meaning: to put forward as an argument.
check bellow for the other definitions of Argument and Parameter
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Argument as a noun:
A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
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Argument as a noun:
A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
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Argument as a noun:
A process of reasoning.
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Argument as a noun (philosophy, logic):
A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
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Argument as a noun (mathematics):
The independent variable of a function.
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Argument as a noun (mathematics):
The phase of a complex number.
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Argument as a noun (programming):
A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.
Examples:
"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."
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Argument as a noun (programming):
A parameter in a function definition; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
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Argument as a noun (linguistics):
Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
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Argument as a noun (astronomy):
The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.
Examples:
"The altitude is the argument of the refraction."
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Argument as a noun:
The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
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Argument as a noun:
Matter for question; business in hand.
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Argument as a verb:
To put forward as an argument; to argue.
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Parameter as a noun:
A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
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Parameter as a noun (sciences):
a variable that describes some system (material, object, event etc.) or some aspect thereof
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Parameter as a noun (programming):
An input variable of a procedure definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time (formal parameter).
Examples:
"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."
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Parameter as a noun (programming):
An actual value given to such a formal parameter (argument or actual parameter).
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Parameter as a noun:
A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
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Parameter as a noun (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.
Examples:
"The parameter of the principal axis of a conic section is called the latus rectum."
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Parameter as a noun (crystallography):
The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
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Parameter as a noun (crystallography):
The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.