amerikai:
brit:
1. A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
2. A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
3. A process of reasoning.
4. A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
5. The independent variable of a function.
6. The phase of a complex number.
7. A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.
Parameters are like labeled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.
8. A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
9. Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
10. The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.
The altitude is the argument of the refraction.
11. The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
12. Matter for question; business in hand.
1. (NNES) To put forward as an argument; to argue.