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A constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic
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coefficient
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE gini ▪ Thus, the higher the Gini coefficient , the more unequal is the distribution of national income. ▪ Both types of inequality are measured using the Gini coefficients for land and income distribution. ■ NOUN ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. cooperating n. 1 (context mathematics English) A constant by which an algebraic term is multiply. 2 A number, value or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also co-efficient , c.1600, from co- + efficient . Probably influenced by Modern Latin coefficiens , which was used in mathematics in 16c., introduced by French mathematician François Viète (1540-1603). As an adjective from 1660s.
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Coefficient could have one of the following meanings:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coefficient \Co`ef*fi"cient\, a. Co["o]perating; acting together to produce an effect. Co`ef*fi"cient*ly , adv.
Usage examples of coefficient.
In the existing setup the necessary heat cannot be supplied through the reactor walls because of the low heat transfer coefficient available for a fluidized system.
Through the social development of capital, the mechanisms of modern sovereignty-the processes of coding, overcoding, and recoding that imposed a transcendent order over a bounded and segmented social terrain-are progressively replaced by an axiomatic: that is, a set of equations and relationships that determines and combines variables and coefficients immediately and equally across various terrains without reference to prior and fixed definitions or terms.
Boy ascribed a low coefficient of irritant potential to Miss Stern, regarding her as a typical young American intellectual woman seeking a cause to justify her existence, until marriage, career, or artsy hobbies defused her.
This coefficient of resemblance between husband and wife in regard to phthisis is about the same as the correlation of resemblance between husband and wife for eye color, stature, longevity, general health, truthfulness, tone of voice, and many other characters.
In using a range of metals and polymers, the coefficient of inharmonicity is proportional to the modulus of elasticity divided by the square of the density.
This is the coefficient for most physical and mental characters: it is the coefficient for such pathological traits as deafness and insanity, which are obviously due in most cases to inheritance rather than infection.
Some of the reaction coefficients are highly dependent on the concentrations and distributions of certain microchemical agencies.
Lagrange surfaces and expansion coefficients all we can really do is guess.
I made some of the coefficients large so that they were hard to solve.
The coefficients indicated in red are modifiers that would be fixed for a given species, but the dominant factors are the general ones shown in green.
Stig's indifferent to what he chops down, knowing he can fell anything with that Swedish Bit and custom Handle, a Hickory or an Alder, an Oak or a Peach, it matters little to Stig, the Equations are the same but for the Arboreal Coefficients, Details of importance to a Beaver are absorb'd in a single brutal downswing, after which, all is over.
All might yet have been well had the General been content to let the scientists get on with their work while he concentrated on saluting smartness, the coefficient of reflection of barrack floors, and similar matters of military importance.
The Curie law, according to which the coefficient of magnetization of a body feebly magnetized varies in inverse ratio to the absolute temperature, is a remarkably simple law.
His eyes fell upon the small computer which had searched in the ship's microfiles for data on compounds with boiling points below such-and-such, with absorption coefficients in certain ranges, which had an inhibitive effect upon the formation of certain other substances.
The hardest one somebody gave me was the binomial coefficient of x10 in (1 + x)20.