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Quotient   /kwˈoʊʃənt/   Listen
Quotient

noun
1.
The ratio of two quantities to be divided.
2.
The number obtained by division.



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"Quotient" Quotes from Famous Books



... furnished room. On the tiger-skin rug before the fire was a basket with a crewel-worked chair-back spread over it. What was in the basket? Again and again I asked myself that question. I felt like a long-division sum, and a cold shiver went down my quotient. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 • Various
... states that a ray of light in transition between two media of different densities is refracted at their boundary surface so that the ratio of the angle which is formed by the ray in either medium with a line at right angles to the boundary surface is such that the quotient of the sines of both angles is for these media a constant factor. In symbols sin α / ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs


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