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"Coefficient" Quotes from Famous Books

... was to establish a coefficient of performance, which with any given class of vessel would enable the speed, which would be obtained with any given power, to be readily predicted. This coefficient was obtained by multiplying the cube of the velocity of the vessels experimented upon, in miles per hour, by the sectional area ...

— A Catechism of the Steam Engine • John Bourne

... validity of my answer to his criticism as regards meteors, I can do no less than admit that he scored one against me in his second argument. I used the word liquid. It was careless diction. Had I used the phrase "composed of a SUBSTANCE of high viscosity, of low specific gravity and with a coefficient of refraction identical with that of air," there would have been no argument. I am sure that Mr. Waite will admit after reflection that such a substance could be held in position, if its specific gravity were low enough, by a combination of gravity and ...

— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various

... object in question, they for some time after take not only an increased interest in it, but continue to realise it with the new intensity. Precisely this is what form does in painting: it lends a higher coefficient of reality to the object represented, with the consequent enjoyment of accelerated psychical processes, and the exhilarating sense of increased capacity in the observer. (Hence, by the way, the greater pleasure we take in the object painted ...

— The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance - With An Index To Their Works • Bernhard Berenson

Words linked to "Coefficient" : dynamic viscosity, absorptance, weighting, transmission, modulus, transmittance, weight, expansivity, mutual inductance, reflectivity, reflection factor, constant, reflectance, absolute viscosity, self-inductance