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a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic

a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic

That which unites in action with something else to produce the same effect.

A number or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as, 6x; bx; here 6 and b are coefficients of x.

A number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc.; as, the coefficient of expansion; the coefficient of friction.

That which unites in action with something else to produce the same effect.

A number or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as, 6x; bx; here 6 and b are coefficients of x.

A number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc.; as, the coefficient of expansion; the coefficient of friction.

Any agent that works with another agent; any sign placed before another as a multiplier; as, in 3 y the coefficient is 3.

The expression of the amount or degree of any quality possessed by a substance, or of the degree of physical or chemical change normally occurring in that substance under stated conditions.

That which acts together with another thing: (math.) the number of known quantity prefixed as a multiplier to a variable or unknown quantiy.

COEFFICIENCY.

COEFFICIENTLY.

Jointly operative.

Something which cooperates.

Jointly efficient.

A cooperating agent.

A number or letter put before an algebraic expression showing how many times it is to be taken.

That which unites in action with something else to produce the same effect; a number put before a quantity, into which it is supposed to be multiplied; the coefficient of any generating term is the quantity which arises from the division of that term by the generated quantity.

That which unites with something else to produce the same effect; in alg., the figure or known number or quantity put before the letter or letters that denote an unknown number or quantity, or partly known and partly unknown.

Co-operating; acting to the same end.

A numerical quantity indicative of the rate at which a body undergoes some mechanical, physical, or chemical alteration.

That which unites its action with the action of another.