exponent
- One who expounds, represents or advocates.
- The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the 3 in 2³=8.
- (obsolete) The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in ^(2])√=b.
- A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.
- The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɛkˈspəʊnənt/
Etymology
From Latin expōnēns, present participle of expōnō (“to expose; to exhibit, display, set out; to explain”), from ex- (“out, away”) + pōnō (“to lay, place, put”).
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