coefficient
Cooperating.
Adjective
- Cooperating.
- 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...
- 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:
Origin
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.
Forms
Derived
coefficiently Coriolis coefficient eigencoefficient piezocoefficient
Noun
- A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.
- An entry of a matrix.
- 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....
- 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...
- A number, value, or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.
- Near-synonym: constant
Synonyms: constant
Hypernyms: factor
Forms
Hyponyms
absorption coefficient austausch coefficient ballistic coefficient binomial coefficient block coefficient Bunsen coefficient Clebsch-Gordan coefficient clustering coefficient coefficient of alienation coefficient of determination coefficient of friction coefficient of nondetermination coefficient of restitution coefficient of thermal expansion correlation coefficient Dice coefficient drag coefficient elasticity coefficient exchange coefficient Fourier coefficient Gini coefficient Hall coefficient Jaccard coefficient Kendall rank correlation coefficient