coefficient of drag

1. 1.

   the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and the surface area of the body

   Synonymsdrag coefficient

   Broadercoefficient

Questions about coefficient of drag

What does coefficient of drag mean?

coefficient of drag means "the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and the surface area of the body".

What is another word for coefficient of drag?

Close synonyms include drag coefficient. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coefficient of drag a common word?

coefficient of drag is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.