coefficient
See also: coëfficient and coëfficiënt
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Etymology edit
From French coefficient. Coined by French mathematician François Viète. Or influenced by (New) Latin coefficient-, which is the stem of coefficiens, which is a substantivation of the present active participle of coefficio, which comes from co- and efficio.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): [ˌkəʊ.ɪˈfɪʃn̩t], [ˌkəʊ.iˈfɪʃn̩t]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌkoʊ.ɪˈfɪʃənt/, /ˌkoʊ.əˈfɪʃənt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪʃənt
Adjective edit
coefficient (comparative more coefficient, superlative most coefficient)
- Cooperating.
- 1850, August Neander, The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical ..., page 13:
- And so our own idea of Christ compels us to admit that two factors, the one natural, the other supernatural, were coefficient in his entrance into human life;
- 2005, Mathew Callahan, Boff Whalley, The Trouble with Music, page 12:
- Nevertheless, there was some substance to the notion that acclaim and merit were coefficient.
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cooperating
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Noun edit
coefficient (plural coefficients)
- (mathematics) A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.
- (mathematics) An entry of a matrix.
- 2016, Anthony E. Armenàkas, Advanced Mechanics of Materials and Applied Elasticity, CRC Press, page 681:
- Notice that many of the terms of the matrices [Se] (e = 1, 2, 3) vanish. We call the non-vanishing coefficients of the matrix [Se] the stiffness coefficients of element e and we denote them by Krse.
- 2004, Frédérique Oggier, Emanuele Viterbo, Algebraic Number Theory and Code Design for Rayleigh Fading Channels, Now Publishers Inc, page 17:
- Definition 3.7. A lattice Λ is called an integral lattice if its Gram matrix has coefficients in ℤ.
- A number, value, or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.
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(a number, value or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic):
- absorption coefficient
- austausch coefficient
- ballistic coefficient
- binomial coefficient
- block coefficient
- Bunsen coefficient
- Clebsch-Gordan coefficient
- clustering coefficient
- coefficient of alienation
- coefficient of determination
- coefficient of friction
- coefficient of nondetermination
- coefficient of restitution
- coefficient of thermal expansion
- correlation coefficient
- Dice coefficient
- drag coefficient
- elasticity coefficient
- exchange coefficient
- Gini coefficient
- Hall coefficient
- Jaccard coefficient
- midship coefficient
- partition coefficient
- prismatic coefficient
- Seebeck coefficient
- Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
- Steinmetz coefficient
- Sørensen-Dice coefficient
- temperature coefficient
- urotoxic coefficient
- void coefficient
- waterplane coefficient
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algebraic constant
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measure of some property or characteristic
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French edit
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coefficient m (plural coefficients)
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Further reading edit
- “coefficient”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.