exponent

Meaning

Noun

• 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 $2^3=8$.
• The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the $2$ in $\backslash sqrt[2]r=b$.
• A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.
• The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.

Origin

• From Latin expōnēns, present participle of expōnō, from ex- + pōnō.