time parameter

plural time parameters

1. computingA function used to specify the maximum CPU utilization time permitted for the job to execute.
2. computingA parameter that represents time.
3. mathematicsA value that represents the amount of time that has elapsed in a mathematical model of a process.

   The time parameter is really a measure of the physical evolution of the observer, their apparatus, and the SUO in the physical universe.

   2016, George Jaroszkiewicz, Images of Time: Mind, Science, Reality, page 150

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   Thus, in a Friedman universe there are certain natural symmetries related to the dynamic geometry which serve as markers for the foliation of spacetime and the assigning of a cosmic time parameter.

   2002, Gregory E. Ganssle, David M. Woodruff, God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature, page 142

   For example, for each age-specific fertility time sequence analyzed in the following chapters, we have chosen a standard form that separates into one fitted age parameter and one fitted time parameter as much as possible of the relation to the change in total fertility rate.

   2013, Mary B. Breckenridge, Age, Time, and Fertility, page 35