verb
- past tense and past participle of parametrise; to express or define something in terms of parameters or variables.
Usage: chiefly British spelling (American: parametrized); technical/academic usage, common in mathematics, physics, and computer science
Examples
- The engineer parametrised the model to allow for different input values.
- The curve was parametrised using two independent variables.
- They parametrised the system so that users could adjust key settings.
- The physicist parametrised the equations to simplify the calculations.
- Once the design was parametrised, it became easy to generate variations.