coefficients
coefficients is the plural of coefficient.
Meaning of coefficient
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
- A number, value, or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.
- Near-synonym: constant
- Synonyms:
- constant
Phrases with coefficients
- Dice coefficients
- drag coefficients
- Gini coefficients
- Hall coefficients
- void coefficients
- block coefficients
- Bunsen coefficients
- Dice's coefficients
- virial coefficients
- Fourier coefficients
- Jaccard coefficients
- midship coefficients
26 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Seebeck coefficients
- binomial coefficients
- Coriolis coefficients
- exchange coefficients
- urotoxic coefficients
- austausch coefficients
- ballistic coefficients
- partition coefficients
- prismatic coefficients
- Steinmetz coefficients
- absorption coefficients
- clustering coefficients
- elasticity coefficients
- waterplane coefficients
- coefficients of friction
- correlation coefficients
- temperature coefficients
- coefficients of alienation
- Sørensen-Dice coefficients
- Clebsch-Gordan coefficients
- coefficients of restitution
- coefficients of determination
- coefficients of nondetermination
- coefficients of thermal expansion
- Kendall rank correlation coefficients
- Spearman's rank correlation coefficients
Questions about coefficients
- What is coefficients the plural of?
- Coefficients is the plural of coefficient.
Words near coefficients in the dictionary
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