# coefficient
## 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: [ˌkəʊ.ɪˈfɪʃn̩t], [ˌkəʊ.iˈfɪʃn̩t]
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US, Canada) IPA: /ˌkoʊ.ɪˈfɪʃənt/, /ˌkoʊ.əˈfɪʃənt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪʃənt

### Adjective

coefficient (comparative more coefficient, superlative most coefficient)
* 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
* eigencoefficient
* piezocoefficient

#### Translations
### Noun

coefficient (plural coefficients)
* (mathematics) A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.
* (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.
* 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
* Fourier coefficient
* Gini coefficient
* Hall coefficient
* Jaccard coefficient
* midship coefficient
* partition coefficient
* prismatic coefficient
* Seebeck coefficient
* Sørensen-Dice coefficient
* Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
* Steinmetz coefficient
* temperature coefficient
* urotoxic coefficient
* void coefficient
* waterplane coefficient

#### Derived terms

* coefficient matrix
* coefficientwise

#### Translations

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## French
### Alternative forms

* coëfficient
* cœfficient (non-standard)

### Etymology

From co- +‎ efficient.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.e.fi.sjɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

coefficient m (plural coefficients)
* 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.