quotient

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Numbersquotientquo‧tient /ˈkwəʊʃənt $ ˈkwoʊ-/ noun [countable] 1 the amount or degree of a quality, feeling etc in a person, thing, or situation Is all this healthy food supposed to increase my happiness quotient?2 technicalHMN the number which is obtained when one number is divided by anotherExamples from the Corpusquotient• For every day I stayed in Rochester, my intelligence quotient dropped another ten points.• There was Mark, of course, with the cruel and secret quotient of his intelligence.• Brennan's comments on the shelling contained his usual quotient of obscenity.Origin quotient (1400-1500) Latin quotiens “how many times”, from quot “how many”

单词	quotient
释义	quotient From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Numbersquotientquo‧tient /ˈkwəʊʃənt $ ˈkwoʊ-/ noun [countable] 1 the amount or degree of a quality, feeling etc in a person, thing, or situation Is all this healthy food supposed to increase my happiness quotient?2 technicalHMN the number which is obtained when one number is divided by anotherExamples from the Corpusquotient• For every day I stayed in Rochester, my intelligence quotient dropped another ten points.• There was Mark, of course, with the cruel and secret quotient of his intelligence.• Brennan's comments on the shelling contained his usual quotient of obscenity.Origin quotient (1400-1500) Latin quotiens “how many times”, from quot “how many”
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