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exponent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exponent \Ex*po"nent\, n. [L. exponens, -entis, p. pr. of exponere to put out, set forth, expose. See Expound.]
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(Alg.) A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated;
Note: thus a^ 2 denotes the second power, and a^ x the xth power, of a (2 and x being the exponents). A fractional exponent, or index, is used to denote the root of a quantity. Thus, a^ 1/3 denotes the third or cube root of a.
One who, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent of its principles.
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one who explains, expounds, or interprets.
Exponent of a ratio, the quotient arising when the antecedent is divided by the consequent; thus, 6 is the exponent of the ratio of 30 to 5. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706, from Latin exponentem (nominative exponens), present participle of exponere "put forth" (see expound). Earliest use is the mathematical one (said to have been introduced in algebra by Descartes) for the symbol to indicate by what power the base number is to be raised. The sense of "one who expounds" is 1812. As an adjective, from 1580s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who expounds, represents or advocates. 2 (context mathematics English) The power to which a number, symbol or expression is to be raised. For example, the in . 3 (context mathematics English) The result of a logarithm, between a base and an antilogarithm. For example the in . 4 (context linguistics English) A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property. 5 (context mathematics rare English) The degree to which the root of a radicand is found. For example the in .
WordNet
Wikipedia
An exponent is a phonological manifestation of a morphosyntactic property. In non-technical language, it is the expression of one or more grammatical properties by sound. There are several kinds of exponents:
- Identity
- Affixation
- Reduplication
- Internal modification
- Subtraction
Exponent may refer to:
Mathematics- List of exponential topics
- Exponentiation
- Exponential function
- Matrix exponential
- The least common multiple of a periodic group
- Exponential distribution
- Exponential family
- Exponential function
- Exponential growth
- Exponential decay
- Exponent (linguistics)
- The Exponents
- Purdue Exponent
- Woman's Exponent
- Exponent (consulting firm)
Exponent, Inc. (; formerly Failure Analysis Associates) is an American engineering and scientific consulting firm that provides solutions to complex technical problems. Exponent has a multidisciplinary team of scientists, physicians, engineers, and business consultants which performs in-depth research and analysis in more than 90 technical disciplines. The company operates 20 offices in the United States and five offices overseas.
Usage examples of "exponent".
And how utterly fallacious the stereotyped notion that the teachings of Anarchism, or certain exponents of these teachings, are responsible for the acts of political violence.
Mary Stuart, and the great Rachel, panting with her lovers after the theatre, these were the exoteric exponents of love.
Both millenarian belief itself and the tendency of its American exponents to link it to hard-line U.
Paul Carus is today the ablest American exponent of Monism, and to him it is a positive religion.
A floating point value consists of a mantissa, which is a finite number of digits, and an exponent.
Responding to the need for the believers to establish another assembly, Kitty finally made her home in Tauranga where she is an active and much loved exponent of the Cause.
Sangs-rgyas-rgya-mtsho, Tibetan Grand Lama, formidable amd somewhat sinister exponent of Tantric kungfu.
But where in the past the exponents of the mnemotechnic art might have envisaged themselves as spectators at such a theatre, looking inward to the stage as an elaborate set full of memory cues, in the Renaissance memory theatres the mnemotechnician was supposed to look outward from the stage, the actor facing an audience whose location in their ordered ranks of seats provided the sequence clues.
How long before the whole of your prophecy will be fulfilled I cannot say, but under the shadow of so much fulfillment in so short a time, and with such threats from a man who is one of the most prominent exponents of the San Francisco mining-ring staring me and this whole community defiantly in the face and pointing to a completion of your augury, do you blame me for feeling that this communication is the last I shall ever write for the Press, especially when a sense alike of personal selfrespect, of duty to this money-oppressed and fear-ridden community, and of American fealty to the spirit of true Liberty all command me, and each more loudly than love of life itself, to declare the name of that prominent man to be JOHN B.
SANGGE Chinese name for sDe-srid Sangs-rgyas-rgya-mtsho, Tibetan Grand Lama, formidable amd somewhat sinister exponent of Tantric kungfu.
The promotion of cottage industries, the prevention of juvenile street trading, the extension of the Borstal prison system, the furtherance of vague talkative religious movements the fostering of inter-racial ENTENTES, all found in him a tireless exponent, a fluent and entertaining, though perhaps not very convincing, advocate.
Our analogies therefore represent the unity of nature in the coherence of all phenomena, under certain exponents, which express the relation of time (as comprehending all existence) to the unity of apperception, which apperception can only take place in the synthesis according to rules.
Duns Scotus, a thirteenth-century exponent of medieval Aristotelianism.
Although Chase, as befitted the exponent of austerity in wartime, served neither food nor drink, while the Speaker of the House wisely served only coffee, other houses specialized in alcoholic punches and eggnogs.
When I checked his results, I came across an exponent with a misplaced decimal point.