time parameter

time parameter (plural time parameters)

1. (computing, software) A function used to specify the maximum CPU utilization time permitted for the job to execute.
2. (programming) A parameter that represents time.
3. (mathematics) A value that represents the amount of time that has elapsed in a mathematical model of a process.
   • 2002, Gregory E. Ganssle, ‎David M. Woodruff, God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature, page 142:

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

• time parameter space