exponent
Meanings
Plural: exponents
Noun
- a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
- someone who expounds and interprets or explains
- a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
- 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 2³=8.
- The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in ^(2])√=b.
- A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.
- The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.
Origin / 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”).
Scrabble Score: 17
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Words With Friends Score: 20
exponent is a valid Words With Friends word