coefficient
[ˌkəʊ.ɪˈfɪʃn̩t]/ˌkoʊ.ɪˈfɪʃənt/
coefficient adjective: cooperating.
Adjective
coefficient (comparative more coefficient, superlative most coefficient)
- 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 Historical Connexion and Historical ..., page 13
- 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
Noun
coefficient (plural coefficients)
- 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. Armenàkas, Advanced Mechanics of Materials and Applied Elasticity, CRC Press, page 681
- 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
- A number, value, or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.
- Near-synonym: constant
- Synonyms:
- constant
coefficient meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
coefficient in Hindi
- cooperating
- गुणांक guṇāṅk
- algebraic constant
- गुणांक guṇāṅk
- measure of some property or characteristic
- गुणांक guṇāṅk
coefficient in Tamil
- குணகம், கெழு, பெருக்கும் எண்
coefficient in Marathi
- गुणांक
More languagesFewer languages
- coefficient in Bengali
- সহগ śohog
- coefficient in Telugu
- గుణకము guṇakamu, ప్రకృతి prakr̥ti
- coefficient in Malayalam
- ഗുണോത്തരം, ഗുണാങ്കം
- coefficient in Kannada
- ಸಹ ಪ್ರಮಾಣ
- coefficient in Punjabi
- ਗੁਣਾਂਕ
- coefficient in Gujarati
- ગુણાંક
- coefficient in Odia
- ଗୁଣାଂକ
- coefficient in Sanskrit
- अङ्क aṅká
- coefficient in Nepali
- गुणांक, गुणाङ्क
- coefficient in Tagalog
- katuwang
- coefficient in Arabic
- مُعَامِل muʕāmil
- coefficient in Thai
- สัมประสิทธิ์ sǎm-bprà-sìt
- coefficient in Vietnamese
- hệ số
Examples of coefficient in a sentence
- Because the Chernobyl reactor had a large positive void coefficient, the reaction accelerated rapidly once the coolant water started to boil.
- This allows one to express coefficients of polynomials in terms of pseudoroots.
- In this note we investigate local properties for microlocally symmetrizable hyperbolic systems with just time dependent coefficients.
Synonyms of coefficient
Forms of coefficient
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more coefficient |
| superlative | most coefficient |
| alternative form | coëfficient |
| Noun | |
| plural | coefficients |
Origin of coefficient
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.
Words formed from coefficient
Phrases with coefficient
- Dice coefficient
- drag coefficient
- Gini coefficient
- Hall coefficient
- void coefficient
- block coefficient
- Bunsen coefficient
- Dice's coefficient
- virial coefficient
- Fourier coefficient
- Jaccard coefficient
- midship coefficient
25 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Seebeck coefficient
- binomial coefficient
- exchange coefficient
- urotoxic coefficient
- austausch coefficient
- ballistic coefficient
- partition coefficient
- prismatic coefficient
- Steinmetz coefficient
- absorption coefficient
- clustering coefficient
- elasticity coefficient
- waterplane coefficient
- coefficient of friction
- correlation coefficient
- temperature coefficient
- coefficient of alienation
- Sørensen-Dice coefficient
- Clebsch-Gordan coefficient
- coefficient of restitution
- coefficient of determination
- coefficient of nondetermination
- coefficient of thermal expansion
- Kendall rank correlation coefficient
- Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
Words that rhyme with coefficient
- efficient
- sufficient
- deficient
- hyperdeficient
- inefficient
- insufficient
- omniscient
- perficient
- self-sufficient
- allicient
- beneficient
- bideficient
40 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- biodeficient
- calorifacient
- calorificient
- cogniscient
- cost-efficient
- ecoefficient
- eigencoefficient
- equiefficient
- haplodeficient
- haploinsufficient
- haploproficient
- haplosufficient
- hyperefficient
- immunodeficient
- immunoinsufficient
- immunosufficient
- indeficient
- lymphosufficient
- maleficient
- multideficient
- multiscient
- nondeficient
- nonefficient
- nonomniscient
- nonproficient
- nonsufficient
- objicient
- Pareto-efficient
- phosphodeficient
- piezocoefficient
- proficient
- projicient
- pseudodeficient
- subefficient
- superefficient
- superproficient
- ultraefficient
- undeficient
- unproficient
- unsufficient
Questions about coefficient
- What does coefficient mean?
- Coefficient means cooperating.
- What is coefficient in Hindi?
- Coefficient in Hindi is गुणांक (guṇāṅk). See Coefficient meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is coefficient?
- Coefficient can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce coefficient?
- Coefficient is pronounced [ˌkəʊ.ɪˈfɪʃn̩t] (UK).
Words near coefficient in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: coefficient (page history and authors); coefficient (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coefficient (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coefficient (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); সহগ (Bengali) (page history and authors); గుణకము (Telugu) (page history and authors); coefficient (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coefficient (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coefficient (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coefficient (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coefficient (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); अङ्क (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); coefficient (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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