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quotient

英 ['kwəʊʃ(ə)nt] 美 ['kwoʃnt]

解释

n. [数] 商；系数；份额

※ 提供单词"quotient"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

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.

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例句和用法

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

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

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.

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.

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.