quotient
UK/ˈkwəʊʃənt//ˈkwoʊʃənt/
quotient noun: the number (either a fraction or an integer) resulting from the division of one number by another.
Noun
quotient (plural quotients)
- The number (either a fraction or an integer) resulting from the division of one number by another.
- Dividing 12 by 4 yields a quotient of 3.
- By analogy, the result of any process that is the inverse of multiplication as defined for any mathematical entities other than numbers.
- A quotum or quota.
- The number of runs scored per wicket lost when batting, divided by the number of runs conceded per wicket taken when bowling — used as a league table tiebreaker in some first-class tournaments.
- A mathematical structure formed by identifying elements within a larger one.
Verb
quotient (third-person singular simple present quotients, present participle quotienting, simple past and past participle quotiented)
- To identify elements within a mathematical structure so as to create a quotient.
- We show that such deformations still exists after quotienting out by diffeomorphisms only if the non linear addition is non associative.2015, Valerio Astuti, Laurent Freidel, “Lorentz invariant deformations of momentum space”, in arXiv
- In type theory, one commonly replaces quotients with setoids. In this approach, the delay datatype quotiented by weak bisimilarity is still a monad–a constructive alternative to the maybe monad.2019, James Chapman, Tarmo Uustalu, Niccolò Veltri, “Quotienting the delay monad by weak bisimilarity”, in Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, volume 29, number 1, page 67
quotient meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
quotient in Hindi
- number resulting from division
- भगफल bhagphal, विभाग vibhāg, लब्धि labdhi, बाँटफल bā̃ṭphal, फल phal, भजनफल bhajanphal
quotient in Tamil
- ஈவு, ஈவெண்
quotient in Urdu
- خارج القسمت
quotient in Bengali
- ভাগফল
More languagesFewer languages
- quotient in Telugu
- భాగఫలము bhāgaphalamu
- quotient in Malayalam
- ഹരണഫലം
- quotient in Kannada
- ಬಗೆದೊರೆತ
- quotient in Odia
- ଲବ୍ଧ labdha
- quotient in Assamese
- লব্ধ lobdho
- quotient in Tagalog
- kahatian
- quotient in Arabic
- خَارِج قِسْمَة ḵārij qisma, خَارِج ḵārij, حاصِل الْقِسْمَة ḥāṣil al-qisma
- quotient in Indonesian
- kuosien, hasil bagi
- quotient in Persian
- خارج قسمت, بهر bahr
- quotient in Vietnamese
- thương số, thương
- quotient in Myanmar
- စားလဒ် ca:lad
Examples of quotient in a sentence
- The quotient ring over a maximal ideal is a field with a single zero element.
- Another unsolicited maths take: talking about quotients in terms of "equivalence classes" or cosets is really unnatural.
- Rational numbers are susceptible of description as quotients of two integers.
Forms of quotient
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | quotients |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | quotients |
| present participle | quotienting |
| past participle | quotiented |
| past | quotiented |
Origin of quotient
Borrowed from Latin quotiēns, from quotiēs.
Words formed from quotient
- accomplishment quotient
- achievement quotient
- artificial intelligence quotient
- biquotient
- difference quotient
- educational quotient
- encephalization quotient
- Horowitz quotient
- intelligence quotient
- pseudoquotient
- Q quotient
- quotient group
- quotient map
- quotient ring
- quotient set
- quotient space
- Rayleigh quotient
- subquotient
- truth quotient
Phrases with quotient
Words that rhyme with quotient
Questions about quotient
- What does quotient mean?
- Quotient means the number (either a fraction or an integer) resulting from the division of one number by another.
- What is quotient in Hindi?
- Quotient in Hindi is भगफल (bhagphal), विभाग (vibhāg), लब्धि (labdhi). See Quotient meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is quotient?
- Quotient can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce quotient?
- Quotient is pronounced /ˈkwəʊʃənt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of quotient?
- The plural of quotient is quotients.
Words near quotient in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: quotient (page history and authors); quotient (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quotient (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quotient (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quotient (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quotient (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଲବ୍ଧ (Odia) (page history and authors); লব্ধ (Assamese) (page history and authors). 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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