Word Finder - exponent

definition

One who expounds, represents or advocates.

definition

The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the 3 in 2^3=8.

synonyms

• power

definition

The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in \sqrt[2]r=b.

synonyms

• degree
• power

definition

A manifestation of a morphosyntactic property.

definition

The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.

His earliest work dealt mainly with mathematical subjects, and especially with quaternions (q.v.), of which he may be regarded as the leading exponent after their originator, Hamilton.

The prime exponent of the spurious religion is Simon Magus.

The new Hebrew Piyut found its first important exponent in Kalir, who was not a Spaniard.

As an exponent of universal evolution Haeckel is more consistent than Spencer.

Carlyle was the exponent of many of the deepest convictions of his time.

I am not a great exponent of braided lines so tend to use monofilament for my fishing.

For the latter Sir David Lyndsay remains the chief exponent.

Religion, like art, is inferior to philosophy as an exponent of the harmony between man and the absolute.

The school of disciples founded by Heraclitus flourished for long after his death, the chief exponent of his teaching being Cratylus.

Of this tradition the Naboth incident in the time of Ahab furnishes a clear example which brings to light the contrast between the Tyrian Baal-cult, which was scarcely ethical, and of which Jezebel and Ahab were devotees, and the moral requirements of the religion of Yahweh of which Elijah was the prophet and impassioned exponent.

He becomes the interpreter and vindicator of divine justice, the vocal exponent of a nation's conscience.

On the other hand the enigmatical motion of the perihelion of Mercury has not yet found any plausible explanation except on the hypothesis that the gravitation of the sun diminishes at a rate slightly greater than that of the inverse square - the most simple modification being to suppose that instead of the exponent of the distance being exactly - 2, it is - 2.000 000 161 2.

Its organization, adopted by the common synod, was the product of the new democratic ideal embodied in the Cleisthenic reforms, as interpreted by a just and moderate exponent.

Its beginning may be traced as early as the iith century (Pietro Damiani, q.v.), and in the 12th century the most influential exponent of this new piety was Bernard (q.v.) of Clairvaux, who taught men to find God by leading them to Christ.

Abraham Gottlob Werner (1750-1817), the famous exponent of the aqueous theory of earth formation, observed in successive geological formations the gradual approach to the forms of existing species.

He was also one of the founders of the Theologische Jahrbilcher, a periodical which acquired great importance as the exponent of the historical method of David Strauss and Christian Baur.

Yet from the points of view alike of an absolute pluralism, of a flux, and of a formula of bare identity - and a fortiori with any blending of these principles sufficiently within the bounds of plausibility to find an exponent - all knowledge, because all predication of unity, in difference, must be held to be impossible.

The exponent of logic as metaphysic, for whom the rational is the real is necessarily in revolt against all that is characteristically Kantian in the theory of knowledge, against the transcendental method itself and against the doctrine of limits which constitutes the nerve of " criticism."

Of epistemological logic in one sense of the phrase Lotze is still to be regarded as a typical exponent.

He was elected grand master of the Orange Association of British America, and was long the exponent in the Canadian parliament of the claims of that order.

For the Society, as befitted the great exponent of authority and the keeper of the consciences of many kings, had always been on the side of political autocracy; and therefore it became increasingly unpopular, when once the tide of French intelligence began to set in the direction of revolutionary reform.

The social and political decrepitude of Italy, where patriotism was unknown, and only selfishness survived of all the motives that rouse men to action, found its representative and exponent in Guicciardini.

He became the exponent, the very embodiment, of an idea.

Holding a church theory to which the rulers of the country were for a century strongly opposed, Scotland became the leading exponent of Presbyterianism; and this note has been the dominant one in her religious history even in recent times.

This was fgllowed by Through Scylla and Charybdis, in which he developed his favourite view of revelation as experience; Mediaevalism, a vigorous apologia in reply to a Lenten pastoral of Cardinal Mercier, archbishop of Malines, who had attacked him as the chief exponent of Modernism; and Christianity at the Cross Roads, which emphasizes the distinction between his own position and that of the Liberal Protestants, and is of special interest for its treatment of the eschatological problems of the Gospels.

The book was revised by Dr Meyer for publication and furnished by him, at Spinoza's request, with a preface in which it is expressly stated that the author speaks throughout not in his own person but simply as the exponent of Descartes.

Schwarz took an important part in the founding and directing of the German Protestantenverein, and became an eminent exponent of liberal theology.

Yet Leibnitz and Sir William Hamilton recognize him as the best modern exponent of the physics and metaphysics of Aristotle.

Within a few weeks he had become the lampooner of the fallen treasurer, the bosom friend of Oxford and Bolingbroke, and the writer of the Examiner, a journal established as the exponent of Tory views (November 1710).

The Norman Conquest of England was contemporaneous with the supreme influence of the greatest exponent of the theory of ecclesiastical supremacy, the archdeacon Hildebrand, who in 1073 mounted the papal throne as Gregory VII.

He proved a zealous and capable minister, and such a strong exponent of the claims of the crown that no one could have foreseen the later developments by which he was to become their greatest enemy.

He had become such a thorough Englishman in his views and prejudices, that by 1250 he was esteemed the natural exponent of all the wrongs of the realm.

In most respects he was a perfect exponent of the ideals and foibles of his age, and when he broke a promise or repudiated a debt he was but displaying the less satisfactory side of the habitual morality of the 14th century the chivalry of which was often deficient in the less showy virtues.

But it was assumed because it was impossible to expect that a king who had ruled as Charles had ruled could take up a new position as the exponent of the feelings which were represented in the Commons.

By these works he became a recognized exponent of orthodox Hegelianism.

Dr Channing was its distinguished exponent.

Beginning to practise in 1834, Juarez speedily rose to professional distinction, and in the stormy political life of his time took a prominent part as an exponent of liberal views.

He was commonly regarded as a Roman Catholic, but he would appear to have been no more than an extreme exponent of the High Church doctrine of passive obedience.

Hobbes is the great exponent of materialistic determinism.

Yet it has been a true instinct which has led popular opinion as testified to by current literature to find in Nietzsche the most orthodox exponent of Darwinian ideas in their application to ethics.

Burnet made a weighty speech against the bill (1702-1703) directed against the practice of occasional conformity, and was a consistent exponent of Broad Church principles.

In the course of that exile the traces of Semitic or Mahommedan influence gradually faded away, and the last of the line of Saracenic thinkers was a truer exponent of the one philosophy which they all professed to teach than the first.

But in its later days the Neo-Platonist school came more and more to find in Aristotle the best exponent and interpreter of the philosopher whom they thought divine.

The best known exponent of tennis was Henry VIII who, as a young man, was extremely athletic and passionate about sport.

Burn was a great exponent of the Scottish baronial style and encased the whole ancient edifice within a baronial mansion.

He became the leading exponent of this genre in England.

He is a foremost exponent of the calligraphy art form.

Stephen Jay Gould has been the best-known exponent of this theory of " punctuated equilibrium " .

Dunn was a leading exponent of reform, editing the radical Wesleyan Banner.

Simplicity and understatement are powerful tools of the singer/songwriter, and Regan is the supreme exponent.