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- correlation coefficientsplural of correlation coefficient: Any of the several measures indicating the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two random variables.
- coefficients of determinationplural of coefficient of determination: The 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.
- coefficients of frictionplural of coefficient of friction: The 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 …
- drag coefficientsplural of drag coefficient: A 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.
- partition coefficientsplural of partition coefficient: The ratio of the equilibrium concentrations of a solute in two immiscible solvents.
- temperature coefficientsplural of temperature coefficient: A coefficient which relates the change of the magnitude of a physical property to a unit change in temperature.
- Fourier coefficientsplural of Fourier coefficient: A coefficient arising from the Fourier transform of a function or signal.
- coefficients of alienationplural of coefficient of alienation: A numerical measure of the lack of relationship between variables.
- coefficients of restitutionplural of coefficient of restitution: Ratio of the final to the initial relative velocity between two objects after they collide
- binomial coefficientsplural of binomial coefficient: a 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"
- Gini coefficientsplural of Gini coefficient: A 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.
- virial coefficientsplural of virial coefficient: Any of a number of coefficients in the virial expansion of the pressure of a many-particle system in powers of the density, providing systematic corrections to the ideal gas law.
- Clebsch-Gordan coefficientsplural of Clebsch-Gordan coefficient: Any of a class of numbers that arise in angular momentum coupling in quantum mechanics. They appear as the expansion coefficients of total angular momentum eigenstates in an uncoupled tensor product …
- coefficients of thermal expansionplural of coefficient of thermal expansion: The fractional change in size of a material as it is heated through one degree
- absorption coefficientsplural of absorption coefficient: A 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.
- block coefficientsplural of block coefficient: The 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 …
- Dice coefficientsplural of 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.
- exchange coefficientsplural of exchange coefficient: A value that represents the rate of exchange of a given quantity between two substances or systems.
- Hall coefficientsplural of Hall coefficient: With regard to the Hall effect: the ratio of the induced electric field to the product of the current density and the applied magnetic field.
- void coefficientsplural of void coefficient: A coefficient quantifying how the reactivity of a nuclear reactor changes due to the formation of bubbles in the reactor's coolant.
- clustering coefficientsplural of clustering coefficient: A 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 coefficientsplural of ballistic coefficient: physics 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.
- elasticity coefficientsplural of elasticity coefficient: A coefficient that describes the degree to which factors like temperature and pH affect the rate of a chemical reaction.
- prismatic coefficientsplural of prismatic coefficient: The 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 …
- Steinmetz coefficientsplural of Steinmetz coefficient: Any of the coefficients of Steinmetz's equation.
Compound words 2
- eigencoefficientsplural of eigencoefficient: Any of the coefficients of an eigenstate.
- piezocoefficientsplural of piezocoefficient: A piezoelectric coefficient that quantifies the relationship between change in volume and strength of electric field