coefficient
noun
- number just before a variable
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: [ˌkəʊ.ɪˈfɪʃn̩t] / [ˌkəʊ.iˈfɪʃn̩t] / /ˌkoʊ.ɪˈfɪʃənt/
adj
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.
- 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;”
“Nevertheless, there was some substance to the notion that acclaim and merit were coefficient.”
noun
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.
- A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.
- 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.”
“Definition 3.7. A lattice Λ is called an integral lattice if its Gram matrix has coefficients in ℤ.”
- A number, value, or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.
“Near-synonym: constant”