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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.
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New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
With a steel roof and doors, and other body panels in aluminum, its aerodynamic design results in a low coefficient of drag with high downforce, while the absence of spoilers gives it a monolithic, sculptural shape that is imposing from every angle.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2025
As measured by the Gini coefficient, which ranges from zero (a hypothetical situation in which every person has the same income) to one (a hypothetical situation in which one person receives all income), global inequality fell from 0.70 in 1988 to 0.67 in 2008 and then further to 0.62 in 2013.
—Branko Milanovic, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2020
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
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New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
With a steel roof and doors, and other body panels in aluminum, its aerodynamic design results in a low coefficient of drag with high downforce, while the absence of spoilers gives it a monolithic, sculptural shape that is imposing from every angle.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2025
As measured by the Gini coefficient, which ranges from zero (a hypothetical situation in which every person has the same income) to one (a hypothetical situation in which one person receives all income), global inequality fell from 0.70 in 1988 to 0.67 in 2008 and then further to 0.62 in 2013.
—Branko Milanovic, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2020
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coefficient
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While Sloan did not volunteer a hard dollar amount, a little back-of-the-envelope math based on legal filings and other financial documentation suggests that the RSNs and other in-market platforms may expect to lose a grand total of $60 million in ad revenue next season.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
2 May 2025
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Nannen and Crane were living in a U-Haul van and recently spent a significant amount of time in Arizona.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
2 May 2025
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Díaz’s homer in the third inning yesterday was just the 11th in the majors this season hit with a launch angle of 19 degrees or lower.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 May 2025
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Nichol completed a master’s degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Oxford in 2013, and a DPhil in computer science in 2017.—
Laurie Whitwell,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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An exploding star, for example, blasts out huge quantities of material into space at exceedingly high speed.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
25 Apr. 2025
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His new Digi-Key Corp. would purchase these reels, break the pack and sell parts in small quantities, first through a mail-order catalog several inches thick and then online.—
Alina Selyukh,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Coefficient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coefficient. Accessed 8 May. 2025.
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