arguments

A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.

A verbal dispute; a quarrel.

A process of reasoning.

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.

The independent variable of a function.

The phase of a complex number.

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.”

A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.

Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.

The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.

“The altitude is the argument of the refraction.”

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.

Matter for question; business in hand.

(NNES) To put forward as an argument; to argue.