exponent
/ɛkˈspoʊ.nənt/ noun C1- 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.
- A phonological manifestation of a morphosyntactic property; in layman's terms, the expression of one or more grammatical properties by sound.
- The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.
Plural exponents
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Holmes listened to him intently, with no sign of that impatience which the official exponent too often produced.
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