Definition of "parameterization" []

• The representation of physical effects by simplified parameters in a computer model rather than by computing them dynamically (noun)

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• "The creation of cultural institutions encompassing virtually all creative talent contributed to what was called the parameterization of art; a process where a set of parameters of acceptability is created along ideological lines, dictated by power."
• "A parameterization is a heuristic approximation of a complex physical process."
• "Do you agree that some kind of parameterization of the subgrid scales is required in an atmospheric model or do you have another opinion?"