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exponent.

One who expounds, represents or advocates.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɛkˈspəʊ.nənt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈɛk.spə.nənt/Received-Pronunciation/ɪkˈspəʊ.nənt/Received-Pronunciation/ɛkˈspoʊ.nənt/Canada, General-American
  1. One who expounds, represents or advocates.

  2. The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the 3 in 2³=8.

  3. The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in ^(2])√=b.

    obsolete
  4. A phonological manifestation of a morphosyntactic property; in layman's terms, the expression of one or more grammatical properties by sound.

  5. The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.

Where this word comes from

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”).

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