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quotient
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Word definitions for quotient in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the ratio of two quantities to be divided the number obtained by division
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context arithmetic English) The number resulting from the division of one number by another. 2 (context mathematics English) By analogy, the result of any process that is the inverse of multiplication as defined for any mathematical entities other ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES intelligence quotient COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN intelligence ▪ For every day I stayed in Rochester, my intelligence quotient dropped another ten points. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Brennan's comments on the shelling ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quotient \Quo"tient\ (kw[=o]"shent), n. [F., fr. L. quoties how often, how many times, fr. quot how many. See Quota .] (Arith.) The number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"number of times one quantity is contained in another," mid-15c., from Latin quotiens "how often? how many times?; as often as," pronomial adverb of time, from quot "how many?" (see quote (v.)). The Latin adverb quotiens was mistaken in Middle English for ...
Usage examples of quotient.
From the Least Common Multiple up to the Greatest Common Divisor, from the thin, poker-like Quotient with the fierce white moustache to the enormous, puffy Multiplicand, Sara thought they were the most pompous lot she had ever seen.
The teacher was covered with chalkdust and the blackboards were covered with simple additions and subtractions, by multiplicands, multipliers, and products, by dividends, divisors, and quotients.
Intelligence quotient of a hundred and seventy, and musicianship Mozart would have killed for.
His brain was undamaged, undiseased, and of superior intelligence quotient.
After all, she decided with some irony, if Rhonda could find something to admire in MacLaughlin, whose charm quotient was zero, why should succumbing to Eggars be a great big shock?
The teacher was covered with chalkdust and the blackboards were covered with simple additions and subtractions, by multiplicands, multipliers, and products, by dividends, divisors, and quotients.
However, his low intelligence quotient (moron), his extremely low general classification score, and his paranoid tendencies (delusions of grandeur) make it inadvisable to attempt to exploit his idiot-savant talent.
It moved up and was succeeded by codes of his earprints, eyeprints, fingerprints, footprints, voiceprints, normal skin-odorprints, bloodtype, skull and skeleton X-ray and sonograms, brain topography and waveprints, hormone balance, kiair and blood and genetic prints, exterior dimensions, intelligence quotient, psychic quotient, social quotient, and gait classification.
The first positive effect of the unknown plague had manifested: the captain's intelligence quotient had risen.
Both men even possessed the knowledge of an Arkon specialist, through the Arkonide hypno-schooling, but in order to master a positronicon in both theory and practice one needed the intelligence quotient of a Perry Rhodan or a Reginald Bell.
Genetic engineering and rigorous training in childhood had given him an intelligence quotient of one hundred and eighty.
He sometimes thought that part of the commissioning process was the removal of several significant digits from the would-be officers' intelligence quotient.
Now, Emmett could challenge you, demand to know your intelligence quotient, and if your number is higher than his, he would become your servant for life.
It has examined our intellectual abilities and our intelligence quotients.
Fleon Sunoco at the NIH, who is independently rich, hires grave robbers to bring him the brains of deceased members of Mensa, a nationwide club for persons with high Intelligence Quotients, or IQs, as determined by standardized tests of verbal and nonverbal skills, tests which pit the testees against the Joe and Jane Sixpacks, against the Lumpenproletariat.