exponentiation

Meanings

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   noun

   the mathematical operation of raising a base to a power specified by an exponent

   The exponentiation three to the fourth power produces eighty-one.

Formed from exponent + -iation, probably through exponentiate. Exponent comes from Latin exponens, the present participle of exponere ("to set forth"); in mathematics it came to denote the number that sets out a power.

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