coefficient

See also: coëfficient and coëfficiënt

English

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]

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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

 

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

 

Derived terms

• coefficient matrix
• coefficientwise

 

Translations

algebraic constant

• Armenian: գործակից (hy) (gorcakicʻ)
• Asturian: coeficiente m
• 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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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} coefficient (fr) m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} coeficiente (es) m

French

Alternative forms

• coëfficient

Etymology

From co- +‎ efficient.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.e.fi.sjɑ̃/

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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.