quotient

See also: Quotient and quotiënt

Contents

English

Etymology

From Latin quotiens, from quoties.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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Noun

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 terms

• intelligence quotient
• quotient group

Related terms

• quotientive
• quotiety

Translations

number resulting from division

• Armenian: քանորդ (hy) (kʿanord)
• Catalan: quocient m
• Cebuano: lapa
• 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)
• Hungarian: hányados (hu)
• Icelandic: kvóti (is) m, hlutatala f
• Ido: quociento (io)

• Italian: quoziente (it) m
• Japanese: 商 (ja) (しょう, shō)
• Macedonian: количник m (kóličnik)
• Maori: otinga, otinga wehe
• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian: količnik (sh) m
• 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 also

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) with (remainder) remaining

• summation

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

• factorisation

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

Anagrams

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French

Etymology

From Latin quotiens, from quoties

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.sjɑ̃/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

quotient m (plural quotients)

1. Quotient (result of a division).

Further reading

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