Parm

/parm/ Further-compressed form of param.

This term is an IBMism, and written use is almost unknown outside IBM shops; spoken /parm/ is more widely distributed, but the synonym arg is favoured among hackers.

Compare var.

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Parkinson's Law of Data Park-Miller Parlance Parlog Parlog++	P4 parm PARMACS ParMod	PARMACS ParMod PARS PARSEC parser