coefficient

Meanings

Adjective

• cooperating

Noun

• A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.
• A number, value or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• coefficient of friction

Origin

• 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.