To undergo or show change, To have a range of different qualities or amounts, To give variety to; make diverse, transitive verb_ To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify, To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversify; to variegate, To change with time or a similar parameter, verb_ be subject to change in accordance with a variable, become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence, be at variance with; be out of line with

In heraldry, an abbreviation of argent, computing, programming, informal An argument; a value passed as a parameter

Plural form of preference, this sense?) (computing) The user-specified settings of parameters in interactive computer software, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of preference

(computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program, any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance, A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others