drag coefficient

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

   Synonymscoefficient of drag

   Broadercoefficient

Questions about drag coefficient

What does drag coefficient mean?

drag coefficient 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 drag coefficient?

Close synonyms include coefficient of drag. 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 drag coefficient a common word?

drag coefficient 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.