Coefficient

Coefficient refers to several articles:

Physics

Numerical expression that by means of some formula determines the characteristics or properties of a body:

• Coefficient of friction
• Tracking coefficient
• Dilation ratio
• Coefficient of attraction
• Restitution ratio
• Dissemination coefficient
• Coefficient of resistivity
• Isothermal coefficient
• Security coefficient
• Coefficient of runoff
• Coefficient of drainage
• Thermal conductivity coefficient
• Refraction coefficient
• Form coefficient or infining coefficient: ship theory
• Film coefficient or convection coefficient.

Math

• Coefficient (mathematic)multiplier factor.

Polynomial sums

Statistics

• Variance ratio, useful dispersion measure to compare scatters.

Sociology

• Gini coefficient, measure of inequality devised by the Italian statistician Corrado Gini.

Psychology

• Intellectualintelligence measure. Also called intellectual coefficient or intellectual quotient of diversion (Amparo Belloch, Manual of Psychopathology, Vol. II).