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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɛkˈspəʊnənt/, /ˈɛkspənənt/, /ɪkˈkspəʊnənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) enPR: ĕk'spōnənt, IPA(key): /ˈɛkspoʊnənt/
- Hyphenation: ex‧po‧nent
Noun
[edit]exponent (plural exponents)
- One who expounds, represents or advocates.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- Like attracts like," explained Mrs. Mailey, who was quite as capable an exponent as her husband.
- 1997, Nancy Sherman, Making a Necessity of Virtue: Aristotle and Kant on Virtue, page 1:
- To think of Kant as an exponent of virtue may seem to some readers itself novel and not easily associated with the Kant familiar to discussions of justice and rights.
- (mathematics) The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the in .
- Synonym: power
- (mathematics, obsolete) The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the in .
- 1711, [Jacques Ozanam], “Abridgement of Algebra. Chapter I. Of Monomes.”, in Daniel Hilman, transl., M. Ozanam's Introduction to the Mathematicks or His Algebra: Wherein the Rudiments of that Most Useful Science are Made Plain to a Mean Capacity. Done out of French, London: Printed for R. Sare at Gray's-Inn-Gate in Holborn, →OCLC, problem IV (“To Divide a Quantity by a Quantity”), page 9:
- A Power that hath neither the Signs or before it, is look'd upon as Affirmative, and if it be preceded by a Number that contains the Root ſought and its Exponent may be commenſured by the Exponent of the Root; namely for the Square Root by 2, for the Cube by 3, &c. it will contain the Root ſought.
- 1717, Philip Ronayne, “Of the Indices, or Exponents of Powers”, in A Treatise of Algebra in Two Books: The First Treating of the Arithmetical, and the Second of the Geometrical Part, book I, part V, London: Printed for W[illiam] Innys at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, →OCLC, page 69:
- And univerſally the Exponent of the m Power, is m times the Exponent of the Root, and the Exponent of the m-Root (or Power) is times the Exponent of the Root.
- 1845, Dionysius Lardner, “Algebra”, in Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, editors, Encyclopædia Metropolitana; or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, on an Original Plan: Comprising the Twofold Advantage of a Philosophical and an Alphabetical Arrangement, with Appropriate Engravings, volume I (Pure Sciences, volume 1), London: B. Fellowes [et al.], →OCLC, page 534:
- The notation by which the root is expressed, is the mark called a radical, placed over the letter, with an exponent to the left indicating the order of the root.
- (linguistics) A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.
- 2015, Ruth Kramer, The Morphosyntax of Gender, page 83:
- However, there have been no examples presented of gender systems where the plain n triggers one exponent for gender agreement, and the male and female ns together trigger a different exponent.
- (computing) The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (computing): significand, mantissa
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]one who expounds, represents or advocates
(in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
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See also
[edit]Other terms used in arithmetic operations:
- successor
- addition, summation:
- subtraction:
- (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
- multiplication, factorization:
- (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)
- (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)
- division:
- exponentiation:
- root extraction:
- logarithmization:
- log(base) (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]exponent m inan
- (mathematics) exponent (the power to which something is raised)
- Synonym: mocnitel
- V zápisu 1,45E10 je 1,45 mantisa a 10 exponent. (In the notation 1.45E10, 1.45 is the mantissa and 10 the exponent.) ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Declension
[edit]Declension of exponent (hard masculine inanimate)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | exponent | exponenty |
genitive | exponentu | exponentů |
dative | exponentu | exponentům |
accusative | exponent | exponenty |
vocative | exponente | exponenty |
locative | exponentu | exponentech |
instrumental | exponentem | exponenty |
Related terms
[edit]- See póza
See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]exponent m anim (female equivalent exponentka)
- exponent (person who advocates a position)
Declension
[edit]Declension of exponent (hard masculine animate)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | exponent | exponenti |
genitive | exponenta | exponentů |
dative | exponentovi, exponentu | exponentům |
accusative | exponenta | exponenty |
vocative | exponente | exponenti |
locative | exponentovi, exponentu | exponentech |
instrumental | exponentem | exponenty |
Further reading
[edit]- “exponent”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “exponent”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “exponent”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin expōnēns. The sense “typical representative” is from English exponent.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]exponent m (plural exponenten)
- (mathematics) exponent (number by which a base is raised to a power)
- exponent; someone or something that characterically represents or advocates something, typical representative or advocate
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: eksponen
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]expōnent
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Exponent or Latin exponens.
Noun
[edit]exponent m (plural exponenți)
Declension
[edit]Declension of exponent
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) exponent | exponentul | (niște) exponenți | exponenții |
genitive/dative | (unui) exponent | exponentului | (unor) exponenți | exponenților |
vocative | exponentule | exponenților |
Slovak
[edit]Noun
[edit]exponent m inan
Declension
[edit]Declension of exponent
singular | plural | |
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nominative | exponent | exponenty |
genitive | exponenta | exponentov |
dative | exponentu | exponentom |
accusative | exponent | exponenty |
locative | exponente | exponentoch |
instrumental | exponentom | exponentmi |
Further reading
[edit]- “exponent”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Swedish
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Noun
[edit]exponent c
Declension
[edit]Declension of exponent | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | exponent | exponenten | exponenter | exponenterna |
Genitive | exponents | exponentens | exponenters | exponenternas |
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