How to Use coefficient in a Sentence

coefficient

noun

• What values of the coefficient of friction will get this to work?
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 30 July 2019
• But the friction coefficient is now far greater in one direction.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
• Of course, teams with a better coefficient have the advantage.
  — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• This coefficient takes into account the properties of the hole that slow down the flow of water.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 31 May 2021
• Upping the pain coefficient of the seats is the lowered and stiffened suspension.
  — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 27 Sep. 2022
• Blame the coefficient of friction.
  — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• Likewise, the coefficients of the terms with prime exponents shape a modular form.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026
• 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
• Teams are paired against two teams from four pots based on UEFA coefficient, one home and one away.
  — Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
• Anyway, the final substance that lands high on the coefficient of stickiness list is pancake syrup.
  — Caleb Harris, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
• But one area of the table in which the battle is truly heating up is in the race for the top four — or, coefficient depending, the top five.
  — Carl Anka, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
• However, during this process, the spacecraft grabbed the wrong coefficient.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2019
• Pot one, for example, will consist of the nine clubs with the highest coefficient rankings, with the second pot having the next nine highest.
  — Dan Sheldon, The Athletic, 31 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• Teams are paired against two teams from four pots based on UEFA coefficient, but cannot be drawn against clubs from the same country.
  — Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• The final participants are divided into four pots of nine each based on the coefficient ranking system.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Mar. 2026
• The higher the absolute value of the beta coefficient, the stronger the effect of diet quality on the outcome.
  — New Atlas, 15 Dec. 2024
• Now remember, the frictional force is the normal force times the coefficient of friction (Ff = μN).
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2024
• The metric that matters most is solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC).
  — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Sep. 2026
• Note that rolling resistance is not the same as the coefficient of friction between the tire and the runway surface, which prevents slipping, and is generally high.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2014
• The peak of this dome occurred when the Hall coefficient changed sign, indicating that the dominant charge carriers switched from holes to electrons.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026
• The study found that the system achieves a power coefficient of approximately 15 percent.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Virus Power With one of the lowest heat exchange coefficients, the suit shields the rider from burns during a long slide in addition to keeping out ambient heat.
  — New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
• Wide temperature swings alter dozens of parameters on the arm, including stiffness and coefficients of friction.
  — Gordon Roesler, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2017
• Therefore, the Galois group acts on these solutions as the identity operation, and that’s why picks up the trace of the identity matrix, 2, as its coefficient.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026
• For the purpose of the draw, the 18 teams are separated into three pots of six based on their UEFA club coefficient rankings.
  — Neel Shelat, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025