coefficiency

English

Etymology

From co- +‎ efficiency.

Noun

coefficiency (countable and uncountable, plural coefficiencies)

1. joint efficiency; cooperation
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:

     Now the managing and carrying on of this work by the Spirits instrumental coefficiency requires , that they be kept together without distradion or dissipation

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “coefficiency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)