quotient

英 ['kwəʊʃ(ə)nt] 美 ['kwoʃnt]
  • n. [数] 商;系数;份额

助记提示


1. quote => quotient.

中文词源


quotient 商

来自拉丁语quot,多少,来自PIE*kwo,疑问代词词干,词源同quality,quantity.用于数学名词商。

英文词源


quotient (n.)
"number of times one quantity is contained in another," mid-15c., from Latin quotiens "how often? how many times?; as often as," pronominal adverb of time, from quot "how many?" (see quote (v.)). The Latin adverb quotiens was mistaken in Middle English for a present participle in -ens.

双语例句


1. Being rich doesn't actually increase your happiness quotient.
有钱不见得能提高你的幸福指数。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The island has a high quotient of clergymen.
牧师占了小岛人口的很大一部分。

来自柯林斯例句

3. The quotient simply becomes arbitrarily large as h goes to 0.
商,当h趋近0时,只是任意增大.

来自辞典例句

4. A high communal intelligence quotient does not always, It'seems, insure communal efficiency.
社区中的高智商似乎并不总能确保社区的效能.

来自辞典例句

5. The register used to contain a multiplier in multiplication and the quotient in division.
在乘法运算中存放乘数,在除法运算中存放商的一种寄存器.

来自辞典例句

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