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quotient
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three.
(Higher Alg.) The result of any process inverse to multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.
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 a present participle in -ens.
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 than numbers. 3 (context obsolete rare English) A quotum or quota.
WordNet
n. the ratio of two quantities to be divided
the number obtained by division
Wikipedia
In arithmetic, a quotient (from "how many times", pronounced ˈkwoʊʃənt) is the result of division. For example, when dividing twenty-one (the dividend) by three (the divisor), the quotient is seven.
The quotient may sometimes be defined as the number of times the divisor may be subtracted from the dividend without the remainder becoming negative. For example, the divisor 3 may be subtracted up to 7 times from the dividend 21 before the remainder becomes negative: 21-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 = 0.
Outside of arithmetic, many branches of math have co-opted the word "quotient" to describe structures built by breaking larger structures into pieces. Given a set with an equivalence relation defined on it, a " quotient set" may be created which contains those equivalence classes as elements. A quotient group may be formed by breaking a group into a number of similar cosets, while a quotient space may be formed in a similar process by breaking a vector space into a number of similar linear subspaces.
Quotient is the result of division in mathematics.
Quotient may also refer to:
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.