What's the difference between coefficient and term?
Coefficient
Definition:
(a.) Cooperating; acting together to produce an effect.
(n.) That which unites in action with something else to produce the same effect.
(n.) A number or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as, 6x; bx; here 6 and b are coefficients of x.
(n.) A number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc.; as, the coefficient of expansion; the coefficient of friction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
(2) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
(3) The diseases of airways had the highest contribution to the coefficient of morbidity.
(4) The overall result of this system has been to decrease the coefficients of variation to below 5% for all the milk and serum proteins tested.
(5) (2) A close correlation between the obesity index and serum GPT was recognized by elevation of the standard partial regression coefficient of serum GPT to obesity index and that of obesity index to serum GPT when the data from all 617 students was analysed in one group.
(6) The variation in age-specific rates with age was similar for all cancers, as demonstrated by large positive correlation coefficients between age-incidence patterns averaged over all populations.
(7) 27% of the neurons revealed high sensitivity to the temperature stimulus with coefficient Q10 from 2.4 to 30; 6% of the neurons reacted by the on-response type; 5% of the neurons changed their activity and preserved the new level.
(8) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
(9) The inhibition by DCMU of palmitoylcarnitine oxidation by isolated liver mitochondria was used to calculate a flux control coefficient of the respiratory chain towards gluconeogenesis.
(10) Moderately differentiated tumor revealed a wider range of nucleus size, less clustering (coefficient--3.59) and more hyperchromatic (70.1%) and "bare" (49.4%) nuclei and large nucleoli (22.2%).
(11) The shading of the optoelectronic system had a coefficient of variation (CV) of 1.42% for measurements in the center of the displayed area, but a CV of 3.55% for measurements over the whole monitor area.
(12) Regressional analysis of relations between loads and the level of inbreeding in the Adyg population showed the explicit interrelation between the load of autosomal-dominant diseases and the Fst correlation coefficient being 0.89.
(13) A positive correlation was found between the content in the eluted cell fractions of LH and dynorphin-like immunoreactivity with a correlation coefficient and a slope of the regression line close to one.
(14) The frequency spectra of transmission coefficients for ultrasound passing through a sheet of gas-filled micropores have been measured using incident waves with amplitudes up to 2.4 x 10(4) Pa.
(15) Using the rate coefficient values found by SCoPfit, we simulated a voltage-clamp experiment with both models running under their Na(+)-Na+ exchange mode, and we computed the transient currents generated following voltage steps in both depolarizing and hyperpolarizing directions from a basic potential of -40 mV.
(16) This differential absorbance is linear with increasing concentrations of Na2MoO4 and was used to calculate the molar extinction coefficient of molybdochelin at 425 nm (epsilon similar to 6,200).
(17) A sedimentation coefficient of 5.6S was also determined.
(18) The physical parameters measured are the intensity attenuation and absorption coefficients, the ultrasonic speed, the thermal conductivity, specific-heat capacity and the mass density.
(19) Decreasing lipid chain length increased permeability slightly, while variations in pH had only minor effects on the permeability coefficients of the amino acids tested.
(20) The present investigation examines the assortative mating coefficients for scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) from five separate studies.
Term
Definition:
(n.) That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
(n.) The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life.
(n.) In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms.
(n.) A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
(n.) A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration
(n.) The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years.
(n.) A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation.
(n.) The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes.
(n.) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
(n.) A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term.
(n.) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3.
(n.) A member of a compound quantity; as, a or b in a + b; ab or cd in ab - cd.
(n.) The menses.
(n.) Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions.
(n.) In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents.
(n.) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
(n.) To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(3) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(4) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(5) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(6) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(7) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(8) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(9) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(10) Binding data for both ligands to the enzyme yielded nonlinear Scatchard plots that analyze in terms of four negatively cooperative binding sites per enzyme tetramer.
(11) Arthrotomy with continuous irrigation appears to be more effective in decreasing long-term residual effects than arthrotomy alone.
(12) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(13) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(14) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(15) A novel prostaglandin E2 analogue, CL 115347, can be administered transdermally on a long-term basis.
(16) Optimum rates of acetylene reduction in short-term assays occurred at 20% O2 (0.2 atm (1 atm = 101.325 kPa] in the gas phase.
(17) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(18) But that's just it - they need to be viable in the long term.
(19) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(20) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.