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exponent

Pronunciation: /ɛkˈspəʊ.nənt/

The English word “exponent” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. One who expounds, represents or advocates.
  2. 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.
  3. The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in ^(2])√=b.
  4. A phonological manifestation of a morphosyntactic property; in layman's terms, the expression of one or more grammatical properties by sound.
  5. 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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