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Added 30 September 2026

exponent

/ɛkˈspəʊ.nənt/ noun

Latin root: expōnēns Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about exponent at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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 r2=b.

Origin

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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