quotient

See also: Quotient and quotiënt

English

Etymology

From Latin quotiens, from quoties.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəʊʃənt/
(US) enPR: kwōʹshənt, IPA^(key): /ˈkwoʊʃənt/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

quotient (plural quotients)

(arithmetic) The number resulting from the division of one number by another.
The quotient of 12 divided by 4 is 3.
(mathematics) By analogy, the result of any process that is the inverse of multiplication as defined for any mathematical entities other than numbers.
(obsolete, rare) A quotum or quota.

Derived terms

Related terms

quotientive
quotiety

Translations

number resulting from division

Armenian: քանորդ (hy) (kʿanord)
Catalan: quocient m
Cebuano: lapa
Chinese:
Mandarin: 商 (zh) (shāng), 商數 (zh), 商数 (zh) (shāngshù)
Czech: podíl (cs) m
Danish: kvotient c
Dutch: quotiënt (nl) n
Finnish: osamäärä (fi)
French: quotient (fr) m
Georgian: განაყოფი (ganaq̇opi)
German: Quotient (de) m
Greek: πηλίκο (el) n (pilíko) (pilíko)
Hungarian: hányados (hu)
Icelandic: kvóti (is) m, hlutatala f
Ido: quociento (io)

Italian: quoziente (it) m
Japanese: 商 (ja) (しょう, shō)
Macedonian: количник m (kóličnik)
Maori: otinga, otinga wehe
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kvotient m

Nynorsk: kvotient m
Persian: خارج قسمت‎
Polish: iloraz (pl) m
Portuguese: quociente (pt) m
Romanian: cât (ro) n
Russian: ча́стное (ru) n (částnoje)
Serbo-Croatian: količnik (sh) m
Spanish: cociente (es) m
Swedish: kvot (sv) c
Tagalog: kahatian
Turkish: bölüm (tr)

result of inverse of multiplication defined for non-numerical mathematical entities

Dutch: quotiënt (nl) n
Finnish: osamäärä (fi)

Swedish: kvot (sv) c
Tagalog: kahatian

quotum or quota

Dutch: quotum (nl) n
Portuguese: cota (pt) m

Russian: часть (ru) f (častʹ), до́ля (ru) f (dólja)
Swedish: kvot (sv) c

See also

Other terms used in elementary arithmetic:

addition:
(augend) + (addend) = (total)
subtraction:
(minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
multiplication:
(multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)
division:
(dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient)
Or sometimes = (quotient) with (remainder) remaining
summation
(summand) + (summand) + (summand)... = (sum)
factorisation
(factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)

Anagrams

not quite

French

Etymology

From Latin quotiens, from quoties

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔ.sjɑ̃/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Audio (file)

Noun

quotient m (plural quotients)

Quotient (result of a division).

Further reading

“quotient” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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