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coefficient en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• (US) audio
• /ˌkoʊ.ɪˈfɪʃənt/ (Canada, US)
• [ˌkəʊ.iˈfɪʃn̩t] (UK)
• /ˌkoʊ.əˈfɪʃənt/ (Canada, US)
• [ˌkəʊ.ɪˈfɪʃn̩t] (UK)

Etymology

From French coefficient. Coined by French mathematician François Viète. Or influenced by (New) Latin coefficient-, which is the stem of coefficiens, which is a substantivation of the present active participle of coefficio, which comes from co- and efficio.

Meanings

1. Cooperating.
   • Nevertheless, there was some substance to the notion that acclaim and merit were coefficient. 2005, Mathew Callahan, Boff Whalley, The Trouble with Music, page 12:
   • And so our own idea of Christ compels us to admit that two factors, the one natural, the other supernatural, were coefficient in his entrance into human life; 1850, August Neander, The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical ..., page 13:

Forms

Deriveds

Coriolis coefficient · piezocoefficient · activity coefficient · coefficiently · eigencoefficient

Translations (10)

nb samvirkende (cooperating) · fi myötävaikuttava (cooperating) · ru содействующий (cooperating) · es coeficiente (cooperating) · pt coeficiente (cooperating) · bg съдействащ (cooperating) · pl współpracujący (cooperating) · hi गुणांक (cooperating) · nl behulpzaam (cooperating) · ca coeficient (cooperating)

coefficient en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• (US) audio
• /ˌkoʊ.ɪˈfɪʃənt/ (Canada, US)
• [ˌkəʊ.iˈfɪʃn̩t] (UK)
• /ˌkoʊ.əˈfɪʃənt/ (Canada, US)
• [ˌkəʊ.ɪˈfɪʃn̩t] (UK)

Etymology

From French coefficient. Coined by French mathematician François Viète. Or influenced by (New) Latin coefficient-, which is the stem of coefficiens, which is a substantivation of the present active participle of coefficio, which comes from co- and efficio.

Meanings

1. A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.
2. An entry of a matrix.
   • Definition 3.7. A lattice Λ is called an integral lattice if its Gram matrix has coefficients in ℤ. 2004, Frédérique Oggier, Emanuele Viterbo, Algebraic Number Theory and Code Design for Rayleigh Fading Channels, Now Publishers Inc, page 17:
   • Notice that many of the terms of the matrices [Sᵉ] (e = 1, 2, 3) vanish. We call the non-vanishing coefficients of the matrix [Sᵉ] the stiffness coefficients of element e and we denote them by Kᵣₛᵉ. 2016, Anthony E. Armenàkas, Advanced Mechanics of Materials and Applied Elasticity, CRC Press, page 681:
3. A number, value, or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.
   • Near-synonym: constant

Forms

Deriveds

coefficient matrix · coefficientwise

Hypernyms

factor · factor · constant

Hyponyms

void coefficient · austausch coefficient · Dice coefficient · virial coefficient · Kendall rank correlation coefficient · block coefficient · Gini coefficient · Clebsch-Gordan coefficient · drag coefficient · Jaccard coefficient · waterplane coefficient · absorption coefficient · coefficient of alienation · Fourier coefficient · coefficient of determination · partition coefficient · coefficient of restitution · coefficient of nondetermination · Dice's coefficient · correlation coefficient · Bunsen coefficient · ballistic coefficient · Spearman's rank correlation coefficient · exchange coefficient · elasticity coefficient · coefficient of friction · midship coefficient · coefficient of thermal expansion · prismatic coefficient · clustering coefficient · Seebeck coefficient · Hall coefficient · Sørensen-Dice coefficient · urotoxic coefficient · Steinmetz coefficient · binomial coefficient · temperature coefficient

Synonyms

entry · constant · term

Translations (71)

kk коэффициент (algebraic constant) · tr katsayı (algebraic constant) · pt coeficiente (measure of some property or characteristic) · tl katuwang (algebraic constant) · nn koeffisient (algebraic constant) · hu együttható (measure of some property or characteristic) · th สัมประสิทธิ์ (algebraic constant) · hi गुणांक (algebraic constant) · ca coeficient (algebraic constant) · de Koeffizient (algebraic constant) · be каэфіцые́нт (algebraic constant) · pl współczynnik (algebraic constant) · bg коефицие́нт (algebraic constant) · pl współczynnik (measure of some property or characteristic) · hu együttható (algebraic constant) · es coeficiente (algebraic constant) · ru фа́ктор (algebraic constant) · cmn 係數 /系数 (measure of some property or characteristic) · fr coefficient (measure of some property or characteristic) · bg фа́ктор (algebraic constant) · ru коэффицие́нт (algebraic constant) · he מקדם (algebraic constant) · vi hệ số (algebraic constant) · km មេគុណ (algebraic constant) · fr facteur (algebraic constant) · pt coeficiente (algebraic constant) · eo koeficiento (algebraic constant) · sv koefficient (algebraic constant) · ga comhéifeacht (algebraic constant) · cs součinitel (algebraic constant) · la coefficiēns (algebraic constant) · cmn 係數 /系数 (algebraic constant) · is stuðull (algebraic constant) · fr coefficient (algebraic constant) · nn koeffisient (measure of some property or characteristic) · da koefficient (measure of some property or characteristic) · uk коефіціє́нт (algebraic constant) · fi kerroin (measure of some property or characteristic) · az əmsal (algebraic constant) · ja 係数 (measure of some property or characteristic) · ro coeficient (algebraic constant) · ru коэффицие́нт (measure of some property or characteristic) · de Koeffizient (measure of some property or characteristic) · hi गुणांक (measure of some property or characteristic) · fi kerroin (algebraic constant) · gl coeficiente (algebraic constant) · hu szorzótényező (algebraic constant) · it coefficiente (algebraic constant) · tl katuwang (measure of some property or characteristic) · yue 係數 /系数 (algebraic constant) · nl coëfficiënt (measure of some property or characteristic) · hu szorzó (algebraic constant) · ckb فاکتەری ھاوبەش (algebraic constant) · ar مُعَامِل (algebraic constant) · ko 계수 (algebraic constant) · et koefitsent (algebraic constant) · mi tauwhakarea (algebraic constant) · bg коефицие́нт (measure of some property or characteristic) · hy գործակից (algebraic constant) · da koefficient (algebraic constant) · nl coëfficiënt (algebraic constant) · ckb ھاوکۆڵکە (algebraic constant) · nb koeffisient (algebraic constant) · el συντελεστής (algebraic constant) · sv koefficient (measure of some property or characteristic) · nb koeffisient (measure of some property or characteristic) · lv koeficients (algebraic constant) · it coefficiente (measure of some property or characteristic) · ast coeficiente (algebraic constant) · ja 係数 (algebraic constant) · cs koeficient (algebraic constant)