Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The first or operative factor in a product of two factors.
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- noun A
coefficient which precedes a given quantity in a mathematical formula
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Examples
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It said something along the lines of the boundary state being a classical object from the target space perspective and thus a prefactor would matter.
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Maybe the misunderstanding results from taking two limits at once -- the prefactor that depends on velocity becomes infinite while the rest-mass dependence remains linear.
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Maybe the misunderstanding results from taking two limits at once -- the prefactor that depends on velocity becomes infinite while the rest-mass dependence remains linear.
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Maybe the misunderstanding results from taking two limits at once -- the prefactor that depends on velocity becomes infinite while the rest-mass dependence remains linear.
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