coefficient
nounEtymology 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.
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Mathematics, Sciences A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.
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Mathematics, Sciences 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.2016, Anthony E. Armenàkas, Advanced Mechanics of Materials and Applied Elasticity, CRC Press, page 681:
- Definition 3.7. A lattice Λ is called an integral lattice if its Gram matrix has coefficients in ℤ.2004, Frédérique Oggier, Emanuele Viterbo, Algebraic Number Theory and Code Design for Rayleigh Fading Channels, Now Publishers Inc, page 17:
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A number, value, or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.
- Near-synonym: constant
- Derived terms
- coefficient matrix, coefficientwise
- Hyponyms
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