Definitions for exponent

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exponent ex·po·nent

Spelling: [ik-spoh-nuh nt, ek-spoh-nuh nt]

IPA: /ɪkˈspoʊ nənt, ˈɛk spoʊ nənt/

Exponent is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in exponent (eennoptx).

Definitions for exponent

noun

1. a person or thing that expounds, explains, or interprets:
2. a person or thing that is a representative, advocate, type, or symbol of something:
3. Mathematics. a symbol or number placed above and after another symbol or number to denote the power to which the latter is to be raised:

Origin of exponent

1575-85; Latin expōnent- (stem of expōnēns), present participle of expōnere to expound; see -ent

Examples for exponent

Brilliant as an exponent of the virtues in Spenser, Dante, Chaucer, Lewis could not write his own poetry.

Only, the forest-runner, by long use, has raised the exponent of his powers.

Francesca Caccini was an exponent of the first growth of opera.

The exponent of Rousseau was ofttimes "long preaching," like St. Paul.

Throughout Herzl's life, Die Welt served as the exponent of his ideas.

Afterward she had simply become in memory the exponent of an ideal.

If you are the exponent of your code, that code is good enough for me.

Pages with similar import can be cited from every exponent of Nationalism.

The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal.

She was the first exponent of the law of Judgment after Death for Sin.