logarithmand
logarithmand noun: the number for which one is obtaining a logarithm. Thus, if a = bᶜ, then c is the logarithm (base b) of a, and a is the logarithmand.
Noun
logarithmand (plural logarithmands)
- The number for which one is obtaining a logarithm. Thus, if a = bᶜ, then c is the logarithm (base b) of a, and a is the logarithmand.
- Let us now understand by an actual logarithm, a symbol of the form log a, in which a is any positive number, while b is any positive number > 1, and which denotes such a positive or negative number or zero, that when the “base” b is potentiated by it, the result will be the “logarithmand” a,—the...1843, Alexander John Ellis, transl., The Spirit of Mathematical Analysis, and Its Relation to a Logical System, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], translation of original by Martin Ohm, part I (The...
- We thus have for ω < Ωₑ, inverting the logarithmand[…]1956, Ernst Weber, Linear Transient Analysis, Volume II: Two-Terminal-Pair Networks, Transmission Lines, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, page 200
Forms of logarithmand
| plural | logarithmands |
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Origin of logarithmand
Borrowed from German Logarithmand. By surface analysis, logarithm + -and.
Questions about logarithmand
- What does logarithmand mean?
- Logarithmand means the number for which one is obtaining a logarithm. Thus, if a = bᶜ, then c is the logarithm (base b) of a, and a is the logarithmand.
- What part of speech is logarithmand?
- Logarithmand is a noun.
- What is the plural of logarithmand?
- The plural of logarithmand is logarithmands.
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