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Noun
/ˈärgyəmənt/,
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arguments, plural;
  1. An exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one
    • - I've had an argument with my father
    • - heated arguments over public spending
    • - there was some argument about the decision
  2. A reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong
    • - there is a strong argument for submitting a formal appeal
    • - he rejected the argument that keeping the facility would be costly
  3. An independent variable associated with a function and determining the value of the function. For example, in the expression y = F(x1, x2), the arguments of the function F are x1 and x2, and the value is y

  4. A value or address passed to a procedure or function at the time of call

  5. Any of the noun phrases in a clause that are related directly to the verb, typically the subject, direct object, and indirect object

  6. The middle term in a syllogism

  7. A summary of the subject matter of a book

  1. a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"
  2. controversy: a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument"
  3. a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"
  4. a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie; "the editor added the argument to the poem"
  5. (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
  6. a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable
  7. In logic, an argument is a set of one or more meaningful declarative sentences (or "propositions") known as the premises along with another meaningful declarative sentence (or "proposition") known as the conclusion. ...
  8. In mathematics, arg is a function operating on complex numbers (visualised as a flat plane). It gives the angle between the line joining the point to the origin and the positive real axis, shown as in figure 1 opposite, known as an argument of the point (that is, the angle between the half- ...
  9. In computer programming, a parameter is a special kind of variable, used in a subroutine to refer to one of the pieces of data provided as input to the subroutine. . These pieces of data are called arguments. ...
  10. In linguistics, a verb argument is a phrase that appears in a syntactic relationship with the verb in a clause. In English, for example, the two most important arguments are the subject and the direct object.
  11. An argument in literature is a brief summary, often in prose, of a poem or section of a poem or other work. It is often appended to the beginning of each chapter, book, or canto. They were common during the Renaissance as a way to orient a reader within a large work.
  12. The Argument was an Australian sloop wrecked in 1809.
  13. A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason; A verbal dispute; a quarrel; A process of reasoning; A series of statements organized so that the final statement is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding statements, which function as premises; The ...
  14. (arguments) Variables passed to a function for use within that function.
  15. (arguments) Inputs used to calculate functions.
  16. (Arguments) Data or variables that are being sent to another block of code
  17. (Arguments) Reasons why your side is right; should have lots of facts, and may contain some appeals to the audience's emotions and personal experience.
  18. (Arguments) also called parameters, are placeholders that let you pass values to functions. For example, the following function, called welcome, uses two values it receives in the arguments firstName and hobby:
  19. (arguments) Assertions made based on facts, statistics, logical or objective reasoning, hard evidence, etc. example- "I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. ...
  20. (arguments) Statements which organize the strengths of a particular side in a case or values conflict.
  21. a reason given in proof or rebuttal
  22. A unit of reasoning composed of propositions.
  23. A constant, variable, or expression passed to a procedure.
  24. A data item specified in a method call. An argument can be a literal value, a variable, or an expression.
  25. A piece of data supplied to a program, subroutine, function, or method to tell it what it's supposed to do. Also called a "parameter".