Search for crossword answers and clues
Decimal part of a logarithm
Answer for the clue "Decimal part of a logarithm ", 8 letters:
mantissa
Alternative clues for the word mantissa
Word definitions for mantissa in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in 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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in 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 ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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").
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.