different between significand vs significate

English

Noun

significand (plural significands)

1. The part of a floating-point number that contains its significant digits.

   Synonyms: mantissa, coefficient, argument, fraction

   Coordinate term: exponent

Translations

Further reading

• significand on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Latin significatus, past participle of significare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s???n?f?k?t/

Noun

significate (plural significates)

1. (logic) One of several things signified by a common term.
   • 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic

     “Britain is an island;” “all tyrants are miserable; ” “no miser is rich; ” are universal propositions, and their subjects are therefore said to be distrubted. being understood to stand, each, for the whole of its Significates: but, “some islands are fertile;” “all tyrants are not assassinated;" are Particular, and their subjects, consequently, not distributed, being taken to stand for a part only of their Significates

Related terms

• significand
• signified

References

significate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Interlingua

Participle

significate

1. past participle of significar

Italian

Verb

significate

1. second-person plural present indicative of significare
2. second-person plural imperative of significare
3. feminine plural of significato

Latin

Verb

signific?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of signific?