Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, on Apr. 2009
According to the context in which it is applied, a coefficient can refer to something that together with something else causes a certain effect.
While, in the field of physical, a coefficient will be that expression numerical, which, by means of a formula, will determine the characteristics or properties of a body, for example, coefficient of dilatation, trailing, attraction, from diffusion, among others.
On the other hand and in a different field, such as that of the math, is designated by the term coefficient to the multiplicative factor that belongs to a certain object such as a variable, unit vector, base function, the most important being the binominal coefficient, which is the one that will indicate the number of ways in which subsets can be extracted, starting from a set dice.
And finally one of the most famous and popular coefficients in the world, if not the most, is the coefficient intellectual, which refers to the number that results from the practice of a standardized test that measures the cognitive abilities of an individual in relation to the age group to which they belong.
Its abbreviation is CI and it is considered that 100 is the average in an age group, if it exceeds this mark, then, we will be in front of a person who has a higher IQ than normal, for which that person has of a intelligence superior to that of the rest of his peers.