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Drag coefficient measures how aerodynamic a car is, or essentially how its shape impacts the way it moves through the air, and the lower the number, the better.
THIS WILD ELECTRIC CAR NEEDS LITTLE CHARGING, BECAUSE IT RUNS PARTLY ON SUNSHINEVANESSA BATES RAMIREZDECEMBER 9, 2020SINGULARITY HUB 
The first dimension comes from taking a subset of the 3 billion numbers and adding them together, or multiplying them by some coefficient.
THE COMPUTER SCIENTIST WHO SHRINKS BIG DATAALLISON WHITTENDECEMBER 7, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
Stuff the part that wants to become infinite into a coefficient — a fixed number — in front of the sum.
HOW MATHEMATICAL ‘HOCUS-POCUS’ SAVED PARTICLE PHYSICSCHARLIE WOODSEPTEMBER 17, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
(b) Similarly obtain the phenol coefficient at 30 minutes contact period.
THE ELEMENTS OF BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUEJOHN WILLIAM HENRY EYRE
Of course you want to know how this coefficient has been found out, and how you can be sure it is correct.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, VOL. XXI., NO. 531, MARCH 6, 1886VARIOUS
I hope I have now kept my promise, and made it clear how the coefficient of centrifugal force may be found in this simple way.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, VOL. XXI., NO. 531, MARCH 6, 1886VARIOUS
How to find the coefficient, by which the amount of centrifugal force exerted in any case may be computed.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, VOL. XXI., NO. 531, MARCH 6, 1886VARIOUS
At high temperatures the resistance generally increases, but the temperature coefficient is irregular.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, NO. 1082, SEPTEMBER 26, 1896VARIOUS
The coefficient of volume expansion of a solid is three times its linear coefficient.
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The coefficient K is called the dielectric constant of the medium, and its value is taken as unity for air.
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