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mantissae

mantissae is the plural of mantissa.

Meaning of mantissa

Noun

mantissa (plural mantissas or mantissae)

  1. (obsolete) A minor addition to a text.
  2. The part of a common logarithm after the decimal point, the fractional part of a logarithm.
  3. The significand; that part of a floating-point number or number in scientific notation that contains its significant digits.
    Synonyms:
    significand

Questions about mantissae

What is mantissae the plural of?
Mantissae is the plural of mantissa.

Words near mantissae in the dictionary

  1. mantisfly
  2. mantislike
  3. mantispid
  4. mantispids
  5. mantissa
  6. mantissae
  7. mantissas
  8. mantistic
  9. mantit
  10. mantits
  11. Mantjiltjara

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mantissae (page history and authors); mantissa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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