different between quotient vs multiplication

English

Etymology

From Latin quoti?ns, from quoti?s.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw????nt/
• (US) enPR: kw??sh?nt, IPA^(key): /?kwo???nt/

Noun

quotient (plural quotients)

1. (arithmetic) The number resulting from the division of one number by another.

2. (arithmetic) The integer part of the result of such division.

3. (mathematics) By analogy, the result of any process that is the inverse of multiplication as defined for any mathematical entities other than numbers.
4. (obsolete, rare) A quotum or quota.

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Other terms used in elementary arithmetic:

Anagrams

• not quite

French

Etymology

From Latin quoti?ns, from quoti?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.sj??/

Noun

quotient m (plural quotients)

1. quotient (result of a division).

Derived terms

• quotient intellectuel

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French multiplicacion, from Latin multiplicatio, multiplicationem; ~equivalent to multiplicate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?lt?pl??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

multiplication (countable and uncountable, plural multiplications)

1. (uncountable, arithmetic) The process of computing the sum of a number with itself a specified number of times, or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.
2. (countable, arithmetic) A calculation involving multiplication.
3. The process of multiplying or increasing in number; increase.
   • 1843, Journal of the Statistical Society of London (volume 6, page 191)

     If the lesser nobility have remained more numerous, it must be attributed partly to the gradual multiplication of letters of nobility, and partly to the state of indigence in which in some provinces vast numbers of the gentry lived, and which left them strangers to those habits of caution by which opulent families are governed.

Coordinate terms

• succession
• addition
• exponentiation
• tetration
• pentation
• hexation

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See also

• addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total)
• subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
• division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

References

• multiplication in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• multiplication at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin multiplicatio, multiplicationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myl.ti.pli.ka.sj??/

Noun

multiplication f (plural multiplications)

1. multiplication (process)

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Further reading

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