exponent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈspəʊnənt/
ipa: /ˈɛkspənənt/
ipa: /ɪkˈkspəʊnənt/
ipa: /ɛkˈspoʊnənt/
ipa: /ˈɛkspoʊnənt/
ipa: /ekˈspəʉnənt/
Forms: form: exponents
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”).
Senses: examples: text: Like attracts like," explained Mrs. Mailey, who was quite as capable an exponent as her husband.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: To think of Kant as an exponent of virtue may seem to some readers itself novel and not easily associated with the Kant familiar to discussions of justice and rights.
ref: 1997, Nancy Sherman, Making a Necessity of Virtue: Aristotle and Kant on Virtue, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: One who expounds, represents or advocates.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: power
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1711, [Jacques Ozanam], “Abridgement of Algebra. Chapter I. Of Monomes.”, in Daniel Hilman, transl., M. Ozanam's Introduction to the Mathematicks or His Algebra: Wherein the Rudiments of that Most Useful Science are Made Plain to a Mean Capacity. Done out of French, London: Printed for R. Sare at Gray's-Inn-Gate in Holborn, →OCLC, problem IV (“To Divide a Quantity by a Quantity”), page 9:
text: And univerſally the Exponent of the m Power, is m times the Exponent of the Root, and the Exponent of the m-Root (or #92;frac#123;1#125;#123;m#125; Power) is #92;frac#123;1#125;#123;m#125; times the Exponent of the Root.
ref: 1717, Philip Ronayne, “Of the Indices, or Exponents of Powers”, in A Treatise of Algebra in Two Books: The First Treating of the Arithmetical, and the Second of the Geometrical Part, book I, part V, London: Printed for W[illiam] Innys at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, →OCLC, page 69:
text: The notation by which the root is expressed, is the mark #92;sqrt#123;#125; called a radical, placed over the letter, with an exponent to the left indicating the order of the root.
ref: 1845, Dionysius Lardner, “Algebra”, in Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, editors, Encyclopædia Metropolitana; or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, on an Original Plan: Comprising the Twofold Advantage of a Philosophical and an Alphabetical Arrangement, with Appropriate Engravings, volume I (Pure Sciences, volume 1), London: B. Fellowes [et al.], →OCLC, page 534:
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: degree
power
glosses: The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in ^(2])√=b.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2015, Ruth Kramer, The Morphosyntax of Gender, page 83:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.
Coordinate terms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: significand
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: mantissa
Derived terms: critical exponent
exponentiable
exponential
exponentiation
exponent of inseparability
lifting the exponent
Lyapunov exponent
preexponent
pre-exponent
Related terms: word: expone
word: expose
word: expound
word: successor
sense: addition, summation
english: addend; total
translation: addend; total
alt: augend
word: + =
sense: addition, summation
english: sum
translation: sum
alt: summand
word: + +... =
sense: subtraction
roman: subtrahend
english: difference
translation: difference
word: − =
sense: multiplication, factorization; multiplier
roman: multiplicand
english: product
translation: product
word: × =
sense: multiplication, factorization; factor
english: factor; factor; product
translation: factor; factor; product
word: × ×... =
sense: division; dividend
roman: quotient
word: ÷ =
sense: numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient
english: with remaining
translation: with remaining
alt: quotient
word: Or sometimes
sense: exponentiation; base
english: power
translation: power
alt: exponent
word: =
sense: root extraction; degree
roman: radicand
word: √ =
sense: logarithmization
english: logarithm
translation: logarithm
alt: antilogarithm
word: log(base) =