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Plural of quotient

regular plural

The plural of quotient is quotients.

Forms of quotient

Singularquotient /ˈkwəʊʃənt/
Pluralquotients
Countablecountable

Quotients in a sentence

  • In type theory, one commonly replaces quotients with setoids.2019, James Chapman, Tarmo Uustalu, Niccolò Veltri, “Quotienting the delay monad by weak bisimilarity”, in Mathematical Structures in...
  • Another unsolicited maths take: talking about quotients in terms of "equivalence classes" or cosets is really unnatural.From the entry take
  • Rational numbers are susceptible of description as quotients of two integers.From the entry susceptible
  • Thus, in the technical philosophical sense, they carry no truth quotients.1995, Walter H. Capps, Religious Studies: The Making of a Discipline, →ISBN, page 249. From the entry truth quotient
  • The classical ring of quotients of a commutative Bezout ring is a (von Neumann) regular local ring if and only if R is a commutative semihereditary local ring.2016, Bohdan Zabavsky, “Type conditions of stable range for identification of qualitative generalized classes of rings”, in arXiv. From the entry semihereditary

Meaning of quotient

  1. noun The number (either a fraction or an integer) resulting from the division of one number by another.
  2. noun By analogy, the result of any process that is the inverse of multiplication as defined for any mathematical entities other than numbers.
  3. noun A quotum or quota.

Full definition of quotient

Questions about the plural of quotient

What is the plural of quotient?
The plural of quotient is quotients.
Is quotient countable?
Quotient is a countable noun.

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