coefficient
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- noun
- /koʊˈɛfɪʃənt/
- Specialized
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coeficiente
- "If the coefficient of X is greater than that of Y and the coefficient of Y is greater than that of C, then what can be said about the coefficient of X in relation to the coefficient of C?"
- correlation coefficient
- alpha coefficient
- intraclass correlation coefficient
And also these coefficients can be complex numbers.
- And also these coefficients can be complex numbers.
- The electron plasma has a large extinction coefficient, which means it absorbs light strongly.
- Unfortunately, there's one more number that gets multiplied in front of each term, a coefficient, if you will.
- At one point, China was more unequal than the United States by measure of what's called the Gini coefficient, which measures inequality.
- Then in the bottom of your X, you're just going to put your second constant, your second coefficient.
- We never, we don't have a coefficient of this, right?
- Our leading coefficient is going to be our term.
Examples
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The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient for the Social Skills Form was yielded as .95.
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The questionnaire used for data collection had a reliability coefficient of 0.78.
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So here we'll say our leading coefficient is positive.
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What you do is you take the coefficient on your first degree term.
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Assuming that the coefficient here is a one, which it is.
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This is the diffusion coefficient of heat through the material.
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So the point is that these coefficients are constant.
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At one point, China was more unequal than the United States by measure of what's called the Gini coefficient, which measures inequality.
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The diffusion coefficient determines how quickly heat spreads through materials.
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In mathematics, the leading coefficient of a polynomial affects its overall shape.
Synonyms
A number that multiplies a variable in math or science
A number that multiplies a variable in math or statistics
A number that shows how much one value changes when another changes at the same rate
A number you multiply one amount by to get another amount that changes the same way
Compounds
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A number between -1 and +1 that shows how strong and which way two things are related
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A number that shows how much two surfaces resist sliding when they touch
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A number that shows how a measured amount like a test score relates to a yes-or-no group
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A number that shows how much light or other radiation a material takes in when it passes through it
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A number that shows how much people agree about the order of items
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A number between -1 and 1 that shows how strongly two things change together
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A number that shows how much air or water slows an object moving through it
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A number that shows how much a material changes shape when you push or pull it
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A number showing how much a material grows or shrinks for each degree of temperature change
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A number showing how much a changing current in one coil makes a voltage in another coil
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A number showing how strongly a coil creates voltage when the electric current changes
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A number that shows how thick a liquid is and how hard it is to make it flow
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A number that shows how much light energy a material takes in as it passes through
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A number that shows how well several things together predict one result
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A number that shows how strong and in which direction a straight link between two things is
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A number that shows how closely two sets of ranked scores move together
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A number that shows how similar the order of items is in two lists
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How much one number changes when another number goes up by one
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A number from -1 to 1 that shows the strength and direction of a straight-line connection between two things
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A number showing how strongly two yes or no things are linked and its direction
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A number estimating how strongly two yes-no variables are related
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Coefficient comes from the parts co- ('with') and efficient ('making' or 'bringing about'). Think of a coefficient as the number that works 'with' a variable to 'make' the result bigger or smaller, which is why coefficients multiply a variable or measure a property in math and science.