How to Use coefficient in a Sentence

coefficient

noun

• Over the finite field with two elements, the coefficients and whole numbers of polynomials are both encoded as strings of zeros and ones.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2024
• The share of wealth held by the top 10% increased, as did the share of the top 1% and the Gini coefficient.
  — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 28 June 2021
• These helped polish the Plaid’s aero-ness to a mere 0.208 coefficient of drag, even with the wider wheels and tires.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 24 June 2021
• What values of the coefficient of friction will get this to work?
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 30 July 2019
• The shape moves through the air cleanly enough, VW citing a coefficient of drag of 0.28, matching the Audi e-tron.
  — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 4 Oct. 2020
• This coefficient takes into account the properties of the hole that slow down the flow of water.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 31 May 2021
• The widebody's coefficient of drag (Cd) comes in at 0.398, the highest in the Challenger family.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
• Upping the pain coefficient of the seats is the lowered and stiffened suspension.
  — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 27 Sep. 2022
• Of course, teams with a better coefficient have the advantage.
  — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• Active grille shutters, the optional air suspension and air dam help the Ram achieve a 0.357 coefficient of drag (Cd).
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2018
• View Photos Porsche has worked hard on the aerodynamics to produce a lift coefficient of minus 0.01 at the rear (slight downforce).
  — Peter Robinson, Car and Driver, 23 July 2023
• Even better, the coefficient in front of the t2 term should be the acceleration divided by two.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 13 Aug. 2021
• The team used a number called the Gini coefficient to measure overall inequality among the crabs.
  — Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2019
• But the Gini coefficient is not just used by economists.
  — Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2012
• As a Concept car, the A6 e-tron is extremely sleek and aerodynamic, boasting a coefficient of drag of 0.22.
  — Jason Fogelson, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• Some have estimated that the coefficient of friction between a wheel and a rail covered in damp leaf mulch can be as little as 0.015 – ten times lower than a train needs.
  — Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• However, during this process, the spacecraft grabbed the wrong coefficient.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2019
• America has one of the most skewed Gini coefficients of the industrialized world, on a par with ancient Rome’s.
  — Sebastian Junger, National Review, 13 July 2023
• Thanks to the styling — and touches like grille shutters and underbody sheathing — the car is also very aerodynamic, with a coefficient of drag of only 0.27.
  — Al Haas, Philly.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Still, and despite their low coefficient of friction, the posts became festooned with fans, all of whom would be classified by taxonomists as people.
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
• Woolley shot the first three rounds at 50 yards to evaluate the ballistic coefficient of Saldivar's ammo.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 4 Dec. 2022
• One way to see this is by applying a standard measure of inequality—the Gini coefficient—to the box office.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 11 May 2018
• The value of this acceleration depends on both the incline angle of the slide (θ) and the coefficient of kinetic friction.
  — WIRED, 25 Sep. 2022
• Replace that coefficient with a finite measurement from the lab.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2020
• Built 70 years ago and still in use, the tunnel is where the engineers’ models for fighter jets, missiles and jumbo airliners were tested for coefficient of drag.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• Of course there's a problem that cousins have a coefficient of relatedness of only 1/8th, so there is going to be a lot of information missing.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2012
• There’s a number called the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality on a scale from 1 to 100.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2021
• Friction at contact points between surfaces is what slows most sports down, but the low friction coefficient of ice makes hockey players faster on their feet than the athletes of any other team sport.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2020
• In the scheme above, the electric charge comes from the coefficient — the value that swallows the infinity during the mathematical shuffling.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2020
• People are voting with their feet, and this is the hollowing out of the middle class that puts us on track to maintain our high Gini coefficient — income inequality.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024