parameternoun [ C usually plural ]
uk/pəˈræm.ɪ.tər/us/pəˈræm.ə.t̬ɚ/a set of facts or a fixed limit that establishes or limits how something can or must happen or be done:
The researchers must keep within the parameters of the experiment.
The central office sets/establishes the parameters that guide policy at the local level.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Range and limits
- all the way to idiom
- ambit
- band
- bound
- boundary
- breadth
- condition
- limit
- limited
- meta-
- narrow
- narrowly
- range
- spread
- stricture
- string
- strings attached idiom
- term
- the gamut
- threshold
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