Coefficient vs Prefactor - What's the difference?
coefficient | prefactor |
cooperating
* 1850 , August Neander, The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical ... , page 13
* 2005 , Mathew Callahan, Boff Whalley, The Trouble with Music , page 12
(mathematics) A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.
A number, value or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.
A coefficient which precedes a given quantity in a mathematical formula
*{{quote-journal, 1980, William E. Carlos & Milton W. Cole, Band structure and thermodynamic properties of He atoms near a graphite surface, Physical Review B, volume=21
, passage=The prefactor preceding the sum is the constant density of states associated with two-dimensional motion for each state n of perpendicular motion.}}
As nouns the difference between coefficient and prefactor
is that coefficient is a constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied while prefactor is a coefficient which precedes a given quantity in a mathematical formula.As an adjective coefficient
is cooperating.coefficient
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(wikipedia coefficient)Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- And so our own idea of Christ compels us to admit that two factors, the one natural, the other supernatural, were coefficient in his entrance into human life;
- Nevertheless, there was some substance to the notion that acclaim and merit were coefficient .
Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* coefficient of frictionDerived terms
* coefficient of friction * correlation coefficient * Gini coefficientprefactor
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