noun
Meaning 1
A minor addition to a text.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mantissa
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Pronunciation
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/mænˈtɪsə/
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rhymes with -ɪsə
noun
Meaning 2
The part of a common logarithm after the decimal point, the fractional part of a logarithm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The significand; that part of a floating-point number or number in scientific notation that contains its significant digits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: significand
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the mantissa is .808
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fixed-point part
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fraction
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mantissa, mantīsa, of unknown origin (said by Festus to be a loanword from Etruscan, but it may actually be from Celtic, possibly through Etruscan mediation). Coincidentally, proparoxytone Greek μάντισσα (mántissa) means "female foreteller", as in χαρτομάντισσα (chartomántissa, “cartomancer”) or χειρομάντισσα (cheiromántissa, “chiromancer”).
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: mantissa — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- Chinese Mandarin: 尾数 (wěishù) — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- Czech: mantisa — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- Finnish: mantissa — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- French: mantisse — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- Galician: mantisa — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- German: Mantisse — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- Hindi: अपूर्णांश (apūrṇāñś) — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- Italian: mantissa — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- Japanese: 仮数 (kasū) — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- Polish: mantysa — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- Portuguese: mantissa — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- Russian: манти́сса (mantíssa) — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- Spanish: mantisa — part of a logarithm after the decimal point
- Tagalog: sampuambahagi — part of a logarithm after the decimal point