Definitions for logarithm

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logarithm log·a·rithm

Spelling: [law-guh-rith-uh m, -rith-, Logarithm is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 498 anagrams from letters in logarithm (aghilmort).

Definitions for logarithm

noun

1. the exponent of the power to which a base number must be raised to equal a given number; log:

Origin of logarithm

1605-15; New Latin logarithmus Greek lóg(os) log- + arithmós number; see arithmetic

Examples for logarithm

The complement of the logarithm of a sine, tangent, or secant.

The integral part of a logarithm is called the index or characteristic, and the fractional part the mantissa.

As well might Lamartine sing his odes with the aid of the logarithm tables.

It seems that gravitation is not truth, but only the logarithm of it.

Hence the figure after the PH indicates the logarithm of the number of times the solution is diluted.

To find the logarithm of 2, Briggs raised it to the tenth power, viz.

That was short for logarithm, you know, because I was such a log at arithmetic.

For example, suppose the logarithm of 543839 required to twelve places.

The logarithm of the number is then obtained by adding the previously calculated logarithms of the factors.

If the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, Oughtred indicates this fact by placing the - above the characteristic.