coefficient

adj

1. Cooperating.

   “And so our own idea of Christ compels us to admit that two factors, the one natural, the other supernatural, were coefficient in his entrance into human life;”

   “Nevertheless, there was some substance to the notion that acclaim and merit were coefficient.”

noun

1. A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.
2. An entry of a matrix.

   “Notice that many of the terms of the matrices [Sᵉ] (e = 1, 2, 3) vanish. We call the non-vanishing coefficients of the matrix [Sᵉ] the stiffness coefficients of element e and we denote them by Kᵣₛᵉ.”

   “Definition 3.7. A lattice Λ is called an integral lattice if its Gram matrix has coefficients in ℤ.”

3. A number, value, or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.

   “Near-synonym: constant”