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  1.                 From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
                    

    parm /parm/, n.

    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 favored among hackers. Compare arg, var.