time parameter
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time parameter (plural time parameters)
- (computing, software) A function used to specify the maximum CPU utilization time permitted for the job to execute.
- (programming) A parameter that represents time.
- (mathematics) A value that represents the amount of time that has elapsed in a mathematical model of a process.
- 2002, Gregory E. Ganssle, David M. Woodruff, God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature, page 142:
- Thus, in a Friedman universe there are certain natural symmetries related to the dynamic geometry which serve as markers for the foliation of spacetime and the assigning of a cosmic time parameter.
- 2013, Mary B. Breckenridge, Age, Time, and Fertility, page 35:
- For example, for each age-specific fertility time sequence analyzed in the following chapters, we have chosen a standard form that separates into one fitted age parameter and one fitted time parameter as much as possible of the relation to the change in total fertility rate.
- 2016, George Jaroszkiewicz, Images of Time: Mind, Science, Reality, page 150:
- The time parameter is really a measure of the physical evolution of the observer, their apparatus, and the SUO in the physical universe.