quotient

See also: Quotient and quotiënt

Contents

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəʊʃənt/
• (US) enPR: kwōʹshənt, IPA^(key): /ˈkwoʊʃənt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

EtymologyEdit

From Latin quotiens, from quoties.

NounEdit

quotient (plural quotients)

1. (arithmetic) The number resulting from the division of one number by another.

   The quotient of 12 divided by 4 is 3.

2. (mathematics) By analogy, the result of any process that is the inverse of multiplication as defined for any mathematical entities other than numbers.
3. (obsolete, rare) A quotum or quota.

Derived termsEdit

• intelligence quotient
• quotient group

Related termsEdit

• quotientive
• quotiety

TranslationsEdit

number resulting from division

• Armenian: քանորդ (hy) (kʿanord)
• Catalan: quocient m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 商 (zh) (shāng), 商數 (zh), 商数 (zh) (shāngshù)

• Czech: podíl (cs) m
• Danish: kvotient c
• Dutch: quotiënt (nl) n
• Finnish: osamäärä (fi)
• French: quotient (fr) m
• Georgian: განაყოფი (ganaq̇opi)
• German: Quotient (de) m
• Greek: πηλίκο (el) n (pilíko) (pilíko)
• Ido: quociento (io)
• Italian: quoziente (it) m
• Japanese: 商 (ja) (しょう, shō)

• Macedonian: количник m (kóličnik)
• Maori: otinga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvotient m

  Nynorsk: kvotient m

• Persian: خارج قسمت‏‎
• Polish: iloraz (pl) m
• Portuguese: quociente (pt) m
• Romanian: cât (ro) n
• Russian: ча́стное (ru) n (částnoje)
• Spanish: cociente (es) m
• Swedish: kvot (sv) c
• Tagalog: kahatian
• Turkish: bölüm (tr)

result of inverse of multiplication defined for non-numerical mathematical entities

• Dutch: quotiënt (nl) n
• Finnish: osamäärä (fi)

• Swedish: kvot (sv) c
• Tagalog: kahatian

quotum or quota

• Dutch: quotum (nl) n
• Portuguese: cota (pt) m

• Russian: часть (ru) f (častʹ), до́ля (ru) f (dólja)
• Swedish: kvot (sv) c

See alsoEdit

Other terms used in elementary arithmetic:

• addition:

  (augend) + (addend) = (total)

• subtraction:

  (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)

• multiplication:

  (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)

• division:

  (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient)

  Or sometimes = (quotient) + (remainder)

• summation

  (summand) + (summand) + (summand)... = (sum)

• factorisation

  (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)

AnagramsEdit

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin quotiens, from quoties

PronunciationEdit

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

NounEdit

quotient m (plural quotients)

1. Quotient (result of a division).

Further readingEdit

• “quotient” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).