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Coefficient
Definitions
- 1 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;"
- 1 A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.
- 2 a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 A number, value, or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.
"Near-synonym: constant"
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.
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.
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