Exponent : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Exponent	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
exponent n a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea [syn: advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent] someone who expounds and interprets or explains a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself Synonym(s): exponent, power, index
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exponent \Expo"nent\, n. [L. exponens, -entis, p. pr. of exponere to put out, set forth, expose. See {Expound}.] 1. (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^{n} 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^{[frac13]} denotes the third or cube root of a. 2. One who, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent* of its principles. {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.]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
exponent (Or "characteristic") The part of a {floating-point} number specifying the power of ten by which the {mantissa} should be multiplied. In the common notation, e.g. 3.1E8, the exponent is 8. (1995-02-27)