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exponent

/ɛkˈspəʊnənt/ · noun

Meaning

  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 2^3=8.
  3. The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in \sqrt[2]r=b.
  4. A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.
  5. The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.

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Sources

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