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Phrases 39
- correlation coefficientAny of the several measures indicating the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two random variables.
- coefficient of frictionThe ratio between (1) the magnitude of the force of friction which a surface produces on an object (moving along the surface or being pressed statically against it) and (2) the magnitude of the normal force which is produced by the surface …
- coefficient of restitutionRatio of the final to the initial relative velocity between two objects after they collide
- coefficient of determinationThe proportion of the variation in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s), providing a measure of how well the observed outcomes are replicated by a model.
- temperature coefficientA coefficient which relates the change of the magnitude of a physical property to a unit change in temperature.
- binomial coefficienta coefficient of any of the terms in the expansion of the binomial (x+y)ⁿ, defined by n choose k=(n!)/(k!(n-k)!), read as "n choose k"
- coefficient matrixA matrix consisting of the coefficients of the variables in a set of linear equations. The matrix is used in solving systems of linear equations.
- coefficient of thermal expansionThe fractional change in size of a material as it is heated through one degree
- Gini coefficientA measure of the inequality of a statistical distribution, ranging from 0 (total equality) to 1 (maximal inequality), used in various disciplines but especially in economics to compare incomes or wealth.
- absorption coefficientA measure of the absorption of electromagnetic radiation as it passes through a specific substance; the fraction of incident radiation absorbed by unit mass or unit thickness; absorptivity.
- Dice coefficientSynonym of Sørensen-Dice coefficient: A statistic used to gauge the similarity of two samples. It is equal to twice the number of elements common to both sets, divided by the sum of the number of elements in each set.
- void coefficientA coefficient quantifying how the reactivity of a nuclear reactor changes due to the formation of bubbles in the reactor's coolant.
- block coefficientThe proportion occupied, by the submerged portion of a ship's or boat's hull, of a rectangular prism with dimensions equal to the maximum beam of the submerged portion of the hull, the length of the submerged portion of the hull, and the …
- drag coefficientA dimensionless quantity quantifying the amount of hydrodynamic drag force experienced by an object with a given area immersed in a fluid of a given density flowing at a given speed.
- Hall coefficientWith regard to the Hall effect: the ratio of the induced electric field to the product of the current density and the applied magnetic field.
- partition coefficientThe ratio of the equilibrium concentrations of a solute in two immiscible solvents.
- clustering coefficientA quantitative measure of how often the nodes of a graph cluster together, defined as the ratio of the number of links among the nodes to the maximum possible number of links.
- ballistic coefficientphysics The ratio of the mass of an object to the product of its maximum cross-sectional area and its drag coefficient, used to measure the object's resistance to deceleration by hydrodynamic drag.
- Fourier coefficientA coefficient arising from the Fourier transform of a function or signal.
- coefficient of alienationA numerical measure of the lack of relationship between variables.
- elasticity coefficientA coefficient that describes the degree to which factors like temperature and pH affect the rate of a chemical reaction.
- prismatic coefficientThe ratio between the total submerged volume of a ship's or boat's hull, on the one hand, and the product of the length of the submerged portion of the hull with the area of the largest cross-sectional slice of the submerged portion of the …
- Coriolis coefficientSynonym of Coriolis frequency: The equationf=2Ω sin φ.,, where Ω is the Earth's rotation rate and φ. is the latitude.
- Kendall rank correlation coefficientA measure of the ordinal association between two measured quantities.
- Bunsen coefficientThe number of milliliters of gas dissolved in a milliliter of liquid at atmospheric pressure and a specified temperature.
Compound words 4
- coefficientwiseFor each coefficient; with respect to coefficients.
- coefficientlyIn a coefficient manner
- eigencoefficientAny of the coefficients of an eigenstate.
- piezocoefficientA piezoelectric coefficient that quantifies the relationship between change in volume and strength of electric field