parameter
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in computer programming, special kind of variable that holds data that was passed as an argument to a subroutine
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Encyclopedic overview
In computer programming, a parameter, a.k.a. formal argument, is a variable that represents an argument, a.k.a. actual argument, a.k.a. actual parameter, to a function call. A function's signature defines its parameters. A call invocation involves evaluating each argument expression of a call and associating the result with the corresponding parameter.
For example, consider the Python function
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