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Exponent
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- 1 One who expounds, represents or advocates.
"Like attracts like," explained Mrs. Mailey, who was quite as capable an exponent as her husband."
- 2 a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself wordnet
- 3 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.
- 4 someone who expounds and interprets or explains wordnet
- 5 The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in ^(2])√=b. obsolete
"A Power that hath neither the Signs #43; or - before it, is look'd upon as Affirmative, and if it be preceded by a Number that contains the Root ſought and its Exponent may be commenſured by the Exponent of the Root; namely for the Square Root by 2, for the Cube by 3, &c. it will contain the Root ſought."
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- 6 a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea wordnet
- 7 A phonological manifestation of a morphosyntactic property; in layman's terms, the expression of one or more grammatical properties by sound.
"However, there have been no examples presented of gender systems where the plain n triggers one exponent for gender agreement, and the male and female ns together trigger a different exponent."
- 8 The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.
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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