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quotient

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
quotient /ˈkwəʊʃ(ə)nt/

▶noun

1 Mathematics a result obtained by dividing one quantity by another.

2 a degree or amount of a specified quality.

– origin ME: from L. quotiens ‘how many times’ (from quot ‘how many’), by confusion with participial forms ending in -ens, -ent-.

'quotient' also found in these Oxford entries:

division - intelligence quotient - IQ - short division

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