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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. (arguing) controversy: a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument"
  2. (argument) a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"
  3. (argument) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"
  4. (argument) a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie; "the editor added the argument to the poem"
  5. (argument) (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
  6. (argument) 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. (Argument (complex analysis)) In mathematics, arg is a function operating on complex numbers (visualised as a flat plane). ...
  9. (Argument (computing)) 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. (Argument (linguistics)) 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. (Argument (literature)) 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. (Argument (ship)) The Argument was an Australian sloop wrecked in 1809.
  13. (argument) 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 ...
  14. (argument) 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".
  15. (argument) the communication, in verbal or written form, of the reasoning process that leads to a valid conclusion; a valid argument is the result of the conjecture/reasoning process.
  16. (Argument) (ar*gyou*ment) n. A discussion that occurs when you're right, but he just hasn't realized it yet.
  17. (argument) A data item specified in a method call. An argument can be a literal value, a variable, or an expression.
  18. (argument) A constant, variable, or expression passed to a procedure.
  19. (argument) a reason given in proof or rebuttal
  20. (Argument) A set of statements consisting of premises and a conclusion.
  21. (Argument) Input parameter to a program.
  22. (Argument) A command line argument is one of the words that you type on a QVCS command line. The first command line argument of a QVCS command is the name of the command itself. qget, for example.
  23. (argument) A value, range of cells, or text used in a macro or function.   an argument is enclosed in parentheses; for example =SUM (A1 B1).   (spreadsheet application)
  24. Argument is one of the four modes of discourse along with description, narration, and exposition. The purpose of an argument is to convince your reader to accept your point of view on an issue or to take an action. ...
  25. (argument) A value passed to a function or method, assigned to a named local variable in the function body. A function or method may have both positional arguments and keyword arguments in its definition. ...