noun
Meaning 1
One who expounds, represents or advocates.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
exponent
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɛkˈspəʊ.nənt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.spə.nənt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspəʊ.nənt/
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Canada, General-American: /ɛkˈspoʊ.nənt/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈɛk.spoʊ.nənt/
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Australian: /ɛkˈspəʊ.nənt/
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Australian: [ekˈspəʉ.nənt]
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noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: power
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in ^(2])√=b.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: degree, power
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A phonological manifestation of a morphosyntactic property; in layman's terms, the expression of one or more grammatical properties by sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 5
The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: power, index
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mathematical notation
Narrower terms: degree, logarithm, log
noun
Meaning 7
someone who expounds and interprets or explains
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: intellectual, intellect
noun
Meaning 8
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: advocate, advocator, proponent
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: apologist, vindicator, justifier, constitutionalist, Darwinian, democrat, populist, federalist, Gnostic, humanist, humanitarian, ideologist, ideologue, internationalist, irredentist, irridentist, isolationist, Jansenist, libertarian, Maoist, Marxist, nationalist, neoclassicist, neutralist, nullifier, partisan, zealot, drumbeater, partitionist, Platonist, pro-lifer, presenter, sponsor, protectionist, republican, ritualist, ruralist, secessionist, secularist, separatist, separationist, spokesperson, interpreter, representative, voice, suffragist, supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend, supremacist, teleologist, Thatcherite, unilateralist
History
Etymology
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”).
Across languages
Translations
60 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: тълкувател (tǎlkuvatel) — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Czech: hlasatel — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Finnish: edustaja — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- French: exposant — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Galician: expoñente — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- German: Exponent — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Māori: kaiwhakatakoto — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Norwegian Bokmål: eksponent — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Norwegian Nynorsk: eksponent — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Polish: propagator — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Polish: propagatorka — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Polish: stronnik — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Polish: stronniczka — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Polish: adherent — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Polish: adherentka — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Portuguese: expoente — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Romanian: exponent — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Russian: сторо́нник (storónnik) — one who expounds, represents or advocates
- Arabic: أُسّ (ʔuss) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Armenian: աստիճան (astičan) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Armenian: ցուցիչ (cʻucʻičʻ) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Azerbaijani: qüvvət — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Basque: berretzaile — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Bulgarian: експонента (eksponenta) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Catalan: exponent — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Chinese Mandarin: 指數 /指数 (zhǐshù) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Czech: exponent — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Czech: mocnitel — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Danish: eksponent — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Danish: potenseksponent — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Esperanto: eksponento — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Finnish: eksponentti — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- French: exposant — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Georgian: ხარისხი (xarisxi) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- German: Hochzahl — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- German: Exponent — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Hebrew: מַעֲרִיך (ma'aríkh) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Hindi: घातांक (ghātāṅk) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Hungarian: kitevő — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Icelandic: veldisvísir — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Indonesian: eksponen — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Indonesian: pangkat — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Japanese: 指数 (shisū) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Japanese: 冪指数 (bekishisū) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Khmer: និទស្សន្ត (nitŭəhsɑn) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Korean: 지수 (jisu) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Macedonian: степен (stepen) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Macedonian: експоне́нт (eksponént) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Māori: taupū — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Mongolian: илтгэгч (iltgegč) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Norwegian Bokmål: eksponent — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Norwegian Nynorsk: eksponent — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Polish: wykładnik — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Portuguese: expoente — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Romanian: exponent — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Russian: сте́пень (stépenʹ) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Russian: экспонент (eksponent) — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Spanish: exponente — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Swedish: exponent — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
- Tagalog: paulit — (in mathematics) the power to which something is raised
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