different between exponent vs spokeswoman

English

Etymology

From Latin exp?n?ns, present participle of exp?n? (“to expose; to exhibit, display, set out; to explain”), from ex- (“out, away”) + p?n? (“to lay, place, put”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?sp??n?nt/, /?k?ksp??n?nt/
• (General American) enPR: ?k'sp?n?nt, IPA^(key): /??kspo?n?nt/
• Hyphenation: ex?po?nent

Noun

exponent (plural exponents)

1. One who expounds, represents or advocates.
2. (mathematics) The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the ${\displaystyle 3}$ in ${\displaystyle 2^{3}=8}$.

   Synonym: power

3. (mathematics, obsolete) The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the ${\displaystyle 2}$ in ${\displaystyle {\sqrt[{2}]{r}}=b}$.

   Synonyms: degree, power
4. (linguistics) A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.
5. (computing) The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.

Coordinate terms

• (computing): significand, mantissa

Derived terms

Related terms

• expone
• expose
• expound

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??kspon?nt]

Noun

exponent m

1. (mathematics) exponent (the power to which something is raised)

   Synonym: mocnitel

See also

• mantisa

Related terms

• See póza

Further reading

• exponent in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• exponent in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Latin

Verb

exp?nent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of exp?n?

Swedish

Noun

exponent c

1. (mathematics) exponent

Declension

English

Noun

spokeswoman (plural spokeswomen)

1. A woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people.

Synonyms

• (woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people): prolocutress (rare), prolocutrix (obsolete)

Translations

See also

• spokesman
• spokesperson