Definitions
Number or factor that multiplies a term in mathematics.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“factor in formula”11 letters
02“Algebra multiplier”11 letters
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