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[koh-uh-fish-uhnt] / ˌkoʊ əˈfɪʃ ənt /






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A spokesman for Coefficient Giving said that, because there is disagreement about which AI threats are most pressing, it avoids “taking institutional positions that might imply a settled view about the right approach.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

Use the 95 Percent Critical Values of the Sample Correlation Coefficient table at the end of Chapter 12: In this case, df = 12.

From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020

The effort to create new standards for bats began in 2011, when the N.C.A.A. switched to the Bbcor bat, which stands for Bat-Ball Coefficient of Restitution, and immediately saw a decrease in home runs.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2018

A team of Japanese scientists earned the Ig Nobel Physics Prize, for example, for detailing the hazards of stepping on a banana peel in their paper titled "Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin."

From Reuters • Sep. 19, 2014

Coefficient of friction, definition of, 262; deduction of, from angle of friction, 263; abnormal values on ice, 261-265, 282; for various substances, 265.

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John




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