exponent
Từ điển Collocation
exponent noun
ADJ. chief, foremost, leading, main, principal | great, outstanding | famous, well-known | early He was an early exponent of multimedia in the classroom.
PREP. ~ of a leading exponent of the Japanese flute
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea; advocate, advocator, proponent
- someone who expounds and interprets or explains
- a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself; power, index
Microsoft Computer Dictionary
n. In mathematics, a number that shows how many times a number is used as a factor in a calculation; in other words, an exponent shows that number’s power. Positive exponents, as in 23, indicate multiplication (2 times 2 times 2). Negative exponents, as in 2-3, indicate division (1 divided by 23 ). Fractional exponents, as in 81/3, indicate the root of a number (the cube root of 8).
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
exponents
syn.: advocate advocator index power proponent