ASL STEM

Definition

in mathematics, a number or other fixed quantity applied to a variable. The value of an expression will depend on the numbers which are substituted for the variables.

Source: Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of Maths. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, GBR: Helicon Publishing, 2005. p 143.

Example

For example, x^2 + y^2 has the value 25 when x = 3 and y = 4.