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Definition of quotient in English: quotientnoun ˈkwəʊʃ(ə)ntˈkwoʊʃənt 1Mathematics A result obtained by dividing one quantity by another. 〔数〕商 Example sentencesExamples - Equation predicts that the quotient of growth rate and the amount of nitrogen in leaves is constant.
- By examining the limits of sums, products and quotients of variable quantities, Mengoli was setting up the basic rules if the calculus thirty years before Newton and Leibniz.
- His favourite topics in number theory included binary quadratic forms, quadratic residues, Gauss sums and Fermat quotients.
- He began his contributions to this topic in 1883 with a paper in which he used the Dirichlet principle to prove that a meromorphic function of two complex variables is a quotient of two entire functions.
- Why is the quotient of a number divided by zero infinity?
Synonyms answer, solution, calculation 2A degree or amount of a specified quality or characteristic. (某一品质或特点的)程度;数量 the increase in Washington's cynicism quotient 华盛顿愤世嫉俗情绪的增加。 Example sentencesExamples - And he confirms that the camp quotient is cranked up to 11.
- But this year the copycat quotient is off the scale.
- In minutes, his sick printer was back on its feet, gobbling up its usual quotient of ink cartridges.
- These seem, if anything, to have reinforced a sense of distance from it - an antipathy without his usual quotient of curiosity.
- When you've read the original and been fascinated with it there is invariably a big drop in the interest quotient when going through the translation.
- It's something like their discomfort quotient, or perhaps the way you can see into their grasping for what the right way is to connect with the crowd or a given voter.
- I didn't add to the rudeness quotient of the world.
- I figured I'd get the silly quotient in early today, as the rest of the day will be a bit heavy handed.
- The aggravation quotient is high, but it's good to know these things are going on.
- To keep your weight gain at an acceptable level, you may have to reduce your calorie intake a little and make an effort to keep active, but it shouldn't be so difficult to do that it threatens your fun quotient or your sanity.
- Fortunately, they aren't serious enough to lower the film's broad-based appeal or to diminish its quotient of feel-good moments.
- Already, the artsy-fartsy quotient at neighborhood restaurants and bars is nearing, ahem, Orange Alert level.
- For the third volume, the quotient of research in archives and among the published documents is much, much higher and dependence upon other writers is much, much less.
- Perhaps being bombed at regular intervals throughout the 20th century has given the British a different slant on the entertainment quotient of violence.
- He fulfills the quiet-member-most-likely-to-turn-into-a-wild-man-at-any-moment quotient of the band.
- Hardly a house hasn't been renovated, the limousine quotient is considerably higher than in Switzerland, not to mention elsewhere in Europe.
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin quotiens 'how many times' (from quot 'how many'), by confusion with participial forms ending in -ens, -ent-. Definition of quotient in US English: quotientnounˈkwōSHəntˈkwoʊʃənt 1Mathematics A result obtained by dividing one quantity by another. 〔数〕商 Example sentencesExamples - By examining the limits of sums, products and quotients of variable quantities, Mengoli was setting up the basic rules if the calculus thirty years before Newton and Leibniz.
- His favourite topics in number theory included binary quadratic forms, quadratic residues, Gauss sums and Fermat quotients.
- Equation predicts that the quotient of growth rate and the amount of nitrogen in leaves is constant.
- He began his contributions to this topic in 1883 with a paper in which he used the Dirichlet principle to prove that a meromorphic function of two complex variables is a quotient of two entire functions.
- Why is the quotient of a number divided by zero infinity?
Synonyms answer, solution, calculation 2usually with adjective A degree or amount of a specified quality or characteristic. (某一品质或特点的)程度;数量 the increase in Washington's cynicism quotient 华盛顿愤世嫉俗情绪的增加。 Example sentencesExamples - I didn't add to the rudeness quotient of the world.
- Hardly a house hasn't been renovated, the limousine quotient is considerably higher than in Switzerland, not to mention elsewhere in Europe.
- The aggravation quotient is high, but it's good to know these things are going on.
- To keep your weight gain at an acceptable level, you may have to reduce your calorie intake a little and make an effort to keep active, but it shouldn't be so difficult to do that it threatens your fun quotient or your sanity.
- It's something like their discomfort quotient, or perhaps the way you can see into their grasping for what the right way is to connect with the crowd or a given voter.
- These seem, if anything, to have reinforced a sense of distance from it - an antipathy without his usual quotient of curiosity.
- For the third volume, the quotient of research in archives and among the published documents is much, much higher and dependence upon other writers is much, much less.
- He fulfills the quiet-member-most-likely-to-turn-into-a-wild-man-at-any-moment quotient of the band.
- But this year the copycat quotient is off the scale.
- Fortunately, they aren't serious enough to lower the film's broad-based appeal or to diminish its quotient of feel-good moments.
- When you've read the original and been fascinated with it there is invariably a big drop in the interest quotient when going through the translation.
- I figured I'd get the silly quotient in early today, as the rest of the day will be a bit heavy handed.
- Already, the artsy-fartsy quotient at neighborhood restaurants and bars is nearing, ahem, Orange Alert level.
- And he confirms that the camp quotient is cranked up to 11.
- In minutes, his sick printer was back on its feet, gobbling up its usual quotient of ink cartridges.
- Perhaps being bombed at regular intervals throughout the 20th century has given the British a different slant on the entertainment quotient of violence.
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin quotiens ‘how many times’ (from quot ‘how many’), by confusion with participial forms ending in -ens, -ent-. |