Definition of EXPONENT

exponent

Plural: exponents

Noun

  • A person or thing that explains or represents something.
  • a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
  • someone who expounds and interprets or explains
  • a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
  • One who expounds, represents or advocates.
  • 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.
  • The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in ^(2])√=b.
  • A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.
  • The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.

Examples

  • She was an exponent of playing short, high-value words in Words With Friends.

Origin / 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”).

Scrabble Score: 17

exponent: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
exponent: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
exponent: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 20

exponent: valid Words With Friends Word