Crossword clues for mantissa
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mantissa \man*tis*sa\, n. [L., an addition, makeweight; of Tuscan origin.] (Math.) The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
decimal part of a logarithm, 1865, from Latin mantisa "a worthless addition, makeweight," perhaps a Gaulish word introduced into Latin via Etruscan (compare Old Irish meit, Welsh maint "size").
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A minor addition to a text. 2 (context mathematics English) The part of a common logarithm after the decimal point, the fractional part of a logarithm. 3 (context mathematics computing proscribed English) The significand; that part of a floating-point number or number in scientific notation that contains its significant digits.
WordNet
n. the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the mantissa is .808 [syn: fixed-point part]
Wikipedia
Mantissa may refer to:
- The fractional part of the common logarithm
- The significand, the significant digits of a number in scientific notation or a floating-point number
- Mantissa (band)
- Mantissa (novel), a 1982 novel by John Fowles
- Mantissa College
- De anima libri mantissa, sometimes simply referred as Mantissa, treatise attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias
'''Mantissa ''' were an Australian hard rock band which formed as Killing Time in 1989. Killing Time included Nina Grant on bass guitar and vocals, Chris Paine on guitar, and Adam Pringle on lead vocals. In February 1991 they issued an extended play, Ruby's Mind, which reached the Top 100 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Their Dream Alone (March 1992) extended play, peaked in the Top 30. Killing Time supported national tours by Jane's Addiction, Mudhoney, Scatterbrain and Baby Animals. In August 1992 Killing Time changed their name to Mantissa and followed with their debut album, Mossy God, in October on Red Eye Records / Polydor Records, which appeared in the Top 50 ARIA Albums Chart. Their second album, Thirst, appeared in August 1995 and the group disbanded in 1996.
Mantissa is a novel by British author John Fowles published in 1982. It consists entirely of a presumably imaginary dialogue in a writer's head, between himself and an embodiment of the Muse Erato, after he wakes amnesiac in a hospital bed.
Usage examples of "mantissa".
In front of a wine shop on the Ponte Vecchio sat Signor Mantissa and his accomplice in crime, a seedy-looking Calabrese named Cesare.
Guide to Signor Mantissa must accord them an asterisk denoting especial interest.
Signor Mantissa himself had been through them all, each booth was a permanent exhibit in memory of some time in his life when there had been a blond seamstress in Lyons, or an abortive plot to smuggle tobacco over the Pyrenees, or a minor assassination attempt in Belgrade.
Signor Mantissa reached under his chair, coming up with a new fiasco of wine.
Gaucho said menacingly, prodding Signor Mantissa in the ribs with the corkscrew.
Eagerly Signor Mantissa produced from an inside pocket a folded diagram, hand-sketched in pencil.
Had il gran signore Mantissa blundered so extravagantly as to be arrested?
You are safe with Mantissa, I will defend your life as long as I have my own.
She overrated virtu, individual agency, in much the same way Signor Mantissa overrated the fox.
Godolphin and Rafael Mantissa sat out in back in the garden, at a small table, while the wind from the river played chilly about their mouths and the wheeze of the band frolicked about their ears, more absolutely alone, it seemed to them, than anyone else in the city.
Signor Mantissa waylaid a waitress, who set down four liters of beer on the table.
Gaucho caught sight of Cesare and Signor Mantissa, with two Judas trees, shuffling impatiently near the Posta Centrale.
The Gaucho, making his way aver to Signor Mantissa, saw Evan, the father, and the girl waiting nearby.
Signor Mantissa gazed at her, at the asymmetric eyes, tilt of the frail head, streaming gold hair.
It was a mad, all-out sprint, with the Gaucho taking pot-shots at guards, Cesare waving his knife, Signor Mantissa flapping his arms wildly.