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exponent

About 2.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun One who expounds, represents or advocates.
  2. noun 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. noun The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in r2=b.
  4. noun A phonological manifestation of a morphosyntactic property; in layman's terms, the expression of one or more grammatical properties by sound.
  5. noun The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.

Similar words

power proponent index advocate expression example exhibitor measure superscript reflect

Often followed by

of is in and n for a was to

Word family

exponents

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