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UK
/kwˈəʊʃənt/
]
[ US /ˈkwoʊʃənt/ ]
[ US /ˈkwoʊʃənt/ ]
NOUN
- the number obtained by division
- the ratio of two quantities to be divided
How To Use quotient In A Sentence
- The ratio of the titer on BB to that on 594 was then used as a plating efficiency quotient to correct the titers of the recombinants observed on the given lysogen.
- I’m sure a whole lot more than leptin is responsible for the “post weight loss starvation response” , because not all of it responds to leptin replacement for example, the RQ, which is respiratory quotient, a measure of metabolic rate, does not return to normal after leptin replacement in post-weight reduced people. Gary Taubes responds | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
- He trumpeted his son's high intelligence quotient.
- The island has a high quotient of clergymen.
- I have been trying - and not always 'poetically' - to posit that intelligence is a function that involves beings in relative place and time 'accessing', for lack of a better word, the space/field/infinity quotient that contains/permeates all matter, including chemicals and their processes. Telic Thoughts
- The term IQ, or intelligence quotient, refers to the composite intelligence test score that comes from combining all the subtest scores on the Stanford-Binet or another similar instrument such as the WPPSI. Testing for Kindergarten
- Later it was shown, in collaboration with Collip, that other symptoms of diabetes, namely the ketonuria and the absence of glycogen from the liver, were favourably influenced by the extracts and, with Hepburn, that the respiratory quotient became raised. John Macleod - Nobel Lecture
- She had a hard time believing that someone with the hotness quotient of Kent would go stag.
- I've been sick for about a week now, so my silly quotient is way down low. Everyone needs a regular dosis of silliness
- He began his contributions to this topic in 1883 with a paper in which he used the Dirichlet principle to prove that a meromorphic function of two complex variables is a quotient of two entire functions.