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).
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| Word | Meaning |
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| predetermine | foreordain |
| circuit | a usually circular line encompassing an area |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| furor | an angry or maniacal fit : rage |
| faze | to disturb the composure of : disconcert |
| raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |