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