coefficient

See also: coëfficient and coëfficiënt

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coefficient

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Alternative forms

• coëfficient

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [ˌkəʊ.ɪˈfɪʃn̩t], [ˌkəʊ.iˈfɪʃn̩t]

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌkoʊ.ɪˈfɪʃənt/, /ˌkoʊ.əˈfɪʃənt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃənt

Adjective

coefficient (comparative more coefficient, superlative most coefficient)

1. Cooperating.
   • 1850, August Neander, The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical ..., page 13:

     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;

   • 2005, Mathew Callahan, Boff Whalley, The Trouble with Music, page 12:

     Nevertheless, there was some substance to the notion that acclaim and merit were coefficient.

Derived terms

• coefficiently
• eigencoefficient
• piezocoefficient

 

Translations

cooperating

Bulgarian: съдействащ (bg) (sǎdejstvašt) Dutch: behulpzaam (nl) Finnish: myötävaikuttava Norwegian: Bokmål: samvirkende Portuguese: coeficiente (pt) Russian: содействующий (ru) (sodejstvujuščij) Spanish: coeficiente (es)

Noun

coefficient (plural coefficients)

1. (mathematics) A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.
2. (mathematics) An entry of a matrix.

   Synonyms: entry, term

   • 2016, Anthony E. Armenàkas, Advanced Mechanics of Materials and Applied Elasticity, CRC Press, page 681:

     Notice that many of the terms of the matrices [S^e] (e = 1, 2, 3) vanish. We call the non-vanishing coefficients of the matrix [S^e] the stiffness coefficients of element e and we denote them by K_rs^e.

   • 2004, Frédérique Oggier, Emanuele Viterbo, Algebraic Number Theory and Code Design for Rayleigh Fading Channels, Now Publishers Inc, page 17:

     Definition 3.7. A lattice Λ is called an integral lattice if its Gram matrix has coefficients in ℤ.

3. A number, value, or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.

Hyponyms

(a number, value or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic):

• 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
• midship coefficient
• partition coefficient
• prismatic coefficient
• Seebeck coefficient
• Sørensen-Dice coefficient
• Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
• Steinmetz coefficient
• temperature coefficient
• urotoxic coefficient
• void coefficient
• waterplane coefficient

 

Derived terms

• coefficient matrix
• coefficientwise

 

Translations

algebraic constant

Arabic: مُعَامِل m (muʕāmil) Armenian: գործակից (hy) (gorcakicʻ) Asturian: coeficiente m Azerbaijani: əmsal (az) Belarusian: каэфіцые́нт m (kaeficyjént) Bulgarian: фа́ктор (bg) m (fáktor), коефицие́нт (bg) m (koeficiént) Catalan: coeficient (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 係數／系数 (hai6 sou3) Mandarin: 係數／系数 (zh) (xìshù) Czech: koeficient (cs) m, součinitel m Danish: koefficient c Dutch: coëfficiënt (nl) m Esperanto: koeficiento Estonian: koefitsent Finnish: kerroin (fi) French: coefficient (fr) m, facteur (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Koeffizient (de) m Greek: συντελεστής (el) m (syntelestís) Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: गुणांक (hi) (guṇāṅk) Hungarian: együttható (hu), szorzó (hu), szorzótényező (hu), (please verify) koefficiens (hu) Icelandic: stuðull m Irish: comhéifeacht f Italian: coefficiente (it) m Japanese: 係数 (ja) (けいすう, keisū) Khmer: មេគុណ (mei kun) Korean: 계수 (ko) (gyesu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ھاوکۆڵکە (hawkollke), فاکتەری ھاوبەش (fakterî hawbeş) Latin: coefficiēns (la) Latvian: koeficients m Maori: tauwhakarea Norwegian: Bokmål: koeffisient m Nynorsk: koeffisient m Polish: współczynnik (pl) m Portuguese: coeficiente (pt) m Romanian: coeficient (ro) m Russian: коэффицие́нт (ru) m (koefficijént), фа́ктор (ru) m (fáktor) Spanish: coeficiente (es) m Swedish: koefficient (sv) c Tagalog: katuwang Thai: สัมประสิทธิ์ (th) (sǎm-bprà-sìt) Turkish: katsayı (tr) Ukrainian: коефіціє́нт (uk) m (koeficijént) Vietnamese: hệ số (vi)

measure of some property or characteristic

Bulgarian: коефицие́нт (bg) m (koeficiént) Chinese: Mandarin: 係數／系数 (zh) (xìshù) Danish: koefficient c Dutch: coëfficiënt (nl) m Finnish: kerroin (fi) French: coefficient (fr) m German: Koeffizient (de) m Hindi: गुणांक (hi) (guṇāṅk) Hungarian: együttható (hu) Italian: coefficiente (it) m Japanese: 係数 (ja) (けいすう, keisū) Norwegian: Bokmål: koeffisient m Nynorsk: koeffisient m Portuguese: coeficiente (pt) m Russian: коэффицие́нт (ru) m (koefficijént) Swedish: koefficient (sv) c Tagalog: katuwang

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French: (please verify) coefficient (fr) m Spanish: (please verify) coeficiente (es) m

French

Alternative forms

• coëfficient
• cœfficient (non-standard)

Etymology

From co- +‎ efficient.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.e.fi.sjɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

coefficient m (plural coefficients)

1. coefficient

Derived terms

• coefficient d’erreur
• coefficient de remplissage

Further reading

• “coefficient”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.