Meaning

5 senses
  1. One who expounds, represents or advocates.

    Exponent

    сторо́нникstorónnik

    someone who expounds and interprets or explains

  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.

    Hochzahl, Exponent

    сте́пеньstépenʹ, экспонентeksponent

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

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

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

Examples

2 sentences
  1. About chess and its greatest exponents, many books have been written that are particularly interesting for those who love this fascinating game.

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  2. Louis Armstrong was a well-known exponent of scat singing.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
one who expounds, represents or advocates:
(in mathematics) the power to which something is raised:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
one who expounds, represents or advocates:
(in mathematics) the power to which something is raised:

Origin

From Latin expōnēns, present participle of expōnō (“to expose; to exhibit, display, set ou

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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Forms

plural: exponents
Singularexponent
Pluralexponents

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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