Intelligent
[in-tel-i-juhnt]

adjective

  1. Having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals: an intelligent student.

  2. Displaying or characterized by quickness of understanding, sound thought, or good judgment: an intelligent reply.

  1. Computers. pertaining to the ability to do data processing locally; smart: An intelligent terminal can edit input before transmission to a host computer.

  2. Archaic. having understanding or knowledge (usually followed by of).

     
Parameters
[puh-ram-i-ter]

noun

  1. A constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f(x) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f(x).

  2. Statistics. a variable entering into the mathematical form of any distribution such that the possible values of the variable correspond to different distributions.

  1. Computers. a variable that must be given a specific value during the execution of a program or of a procedure within a program.