GRE Word List
PARAMETER
an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves)
The meaning of the word parameter is an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| emblazon | to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| ingrained | forming a part of the essence or inmost being : deep-seated |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| numismatist | the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals) |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| accelerate | to move faster : to gain speed |