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Plural of exponent

regular plural

The plural of exponent is exponents.

Forms of exponent

Singularexponent /ɛkˈspəʊ.nənt/
Pluralexponents
Countablecountable

Exponents in a sentence

  • He had been multiplying, but it occurred to him he needed to resolve the exponents, first.From the entry multiply
  • Chamber plays became popular in the early 20th century, with leading exponents being Max Reinhardt and August Strindberg.From the entry chamber play
  • In addition, a conjecture on negabent monomials whose exponents are of Niho type is given..2016, Gaofei Wu, Nian Li, Yuqing Zhang, Xuefeng Liu, “Several Classes of Negabent Functions over Finite Fields”, in arXiv. From the entry negabent
  • And even the major exponents of this type of music have said that themselves.1985, Musician: Issues 75-86. From the entry negroidal
  • Young spiders, though, do take to the air; indeed they were the first exponents of hang-gliding.1980, Dennis L. Furnell, “May”, in The Country Book of the Year, Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry spiderlet

Meaning of exponent

  1. noun One who expounds, represents or advocates.
  2. noun The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the 3 in 2³=8.
  3. noun The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in ^(2])√=b.

Full definition of exponent

Questions about the plural of exponent

What is the plural of exponent?
The plural of exponent is exponents.
Is exponent countable?
Exponent is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: exponent (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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