An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
EXPONENT
exponent, power, index
(noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
exponent
(noun) someone who expounds and interprets or explains
advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
(noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
exponent (plural exponents)
One who expounds, represents or advocates.
(mathematics) The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the in .
Synonym: power
(mathematics, obsolete) The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the in .
Synonyms: degree, power
(linguistics) A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.
(computing) The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.
Coordinate terms
• (computing): significand, mantissa
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*po"nent, n. Etym: [L. exponens, -entis, p. pr. of exponere to put out, set forth, expose. See Expound.]
1. (Alg.)
Definition: A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated;
Note: thus a2 denotes the second power, and an the xth power, of a (2 and x being the exponents). A fractional exponent, or index, is used to denote the root of a quantity. Thus, a denotes the third or cube root of a.
2. One who, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent of its principles. Exponent of a ratio, the quotient arising when the antecedent is divided by the consequent; thus, 6 is the exponent of the ratio of 30 to 5. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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