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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The number obtained by dividing one quantity by another. In 45 ÷ 3 = 15, 15 is the quotient.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In mathematics, the result of the process of division; the number of times one quantity or number is contained in another. See division, 2.
  • noun In geometry, if b and c are any two sects, there is always one and only one sect a such that c = ab: this sect a is designated by the notation , and is called the quotient of c by b.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Arith.) The number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater.
  • noun (Higher Alg.) The result of any process inverse to multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the ratio of two quantities to be divided
  • noun the number obtained by division

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English quocient, from Latin quotiēns, quotient-, how many times, from quot, how many; see kwo- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin quotiens, from quoties

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