Mantissa is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 274 anagrams from letters in mantissa (aaimnsst).
1860-65; Latin, variant of mantisa addition, makeweight, said to be from Etruscan; logarithmic mantissa so called because it is additional to the characteristic or integral part (term introdu
mantissa Plantarum, generum editionis sextæ et specierum editionis secundæ.
Linnæus has described this plant minutely in his mantissa Plant, so that no doubt remains of its being his maritimus.
Linnæus, however, says that his plant came from India (mantissa, p. 273).
These features fairly enough suit the Mitra filosa, generally, and with reason, supposed to be the V. filaris of the 'mantissa.'
Linnæus originally confounded it with a similar plant, the Draba alpina, a mistake since rectified in his mantissa Plant.
The nearest approach to this species seems the variety B. of the Murex succinctus (the shell so named in the 'mantissa').
The integral part of a logarithm is called the index or characteristic, and the fractional part the mantissa.
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