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Definition of Quotients
1. quotient [n] - See also: quotient
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quotients
Literary usage of Quotients
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theory of Maxima and Minima by Harris Hancock (1917)
"If for x = x^ the 2 Jc first differential quotients of f(x), viz., /(a), f"(x)9 .
... If for x = XQ the 2 & — 1 first differential quotients vanish, viz., ..."
2. Theory of Maxima and Minima by Harris Hancock (1917)
"If for x = x0 the 2 k first differential quotients of f(x), ... fVk\x), vanish,
and if /^(x) has for X=XQ one-sided differential quotients of contrary sign ..."
3. Food Ingestion and Energy Transformations: With Special Reference to the by Francis Gano Benedict, Thorne Martin Carpenter (1918)
"COMPARISON OF RESPIRATORY quotients OBTAINED WITH VARIOUS PURE CARBOHYDRATES.
A comparison of the respiratory quotients obtained after the ingestion of ..."
4. Elements of Quaternions by William Rowan Hamilton (1899)
"and the only quotients, hitherto employed, have been of the three following ...
Scalar quotients of vectors, with directions either similar or opposite, ..."
5. Algebra: An Elementary Text Book for the Higher Classes of Secondary Schools by George Chrystal (1889)
"It is, of course, obvious that the rational dividends and tk divisors form cycles
collateral with the cycle of th-e partial and total quotients ; namely, ..."
6. Elements of Algebra by Bourdon (Louis Pierre Marie) (1831)
"Of Progression by quotients. 187. We call geometrical progression or progression
by quotients a series of terms of which each is equal to the product of ..."
7. Muscular Work: A Metabolic Study with Special Reference to the Efficiency of by Francis Gano Benedict, Edward Provan Cathcart (1913)
"A comparison of the character of the katabolism before, during, and after work
may be made either directly by comparing the respiratory quotients, ..."
8. Elementary Algebra by Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, Nels Johann Lennes (1915)
"quotients DERIVED FROM SPECIAL PRODUCTS quotients DERIVED FROM SPECIAL PRODUCTS 91.
From the special products given in §§ 84—88 ..."
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