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Exponent   /ˈɛkspˌoʊnənt/   Listen
Exponent

noun
1.
A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea.  Synonyms: advocate, advocator, proponent.
2.
Someone who expounds and interprets or explains.
3.
A mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself.  Synonyms: index, power.



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"Exponent" Quotes from Famous Books



... sectional organization. A very efficient organization with the means at hand to serve its members well can do a great deal to keep members in touch with each other and to advance the interests of the industry. Organization, of course, is essential; but without a periodical exponent there is lacking the advantage to all readers of general timely discussion, questions asked and answered, special articles, illustrations and the news relating exclusively to the industry—all of ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting - Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 • Various
... HELEN BULLITT LOWRY, the exponent of the cocktailored young lady of today, averring that to the pocket-flask, that milepost between the time that was and the time that is, we owe the single standard of drinking. She maintains that the debutantalizing flapper, now driven ...
— Nonsenseorship • G. G. Putnam
... To thoroughly understand the one, we must be acquainted with the other, and it will be the object of the two following chapters to trace the development of the English novel in connection with that national development of which it will be shown to be in great measure the exponent. ...
— A History of English Prose Fiction • Bayard Tuckerman
... be expected that James would be an exponent of the current system of belief. He had read diligently, if not widely, in the Continental lore of the subject and had assimilated much of it. He was Scotch enough to be interested in theology and Stuart enough to have very definite opinions. James had, too, his ...
— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein
... day, he yielded to temptation, and went to call upon Reed Opdyke, not to indulge in theoretical discussion concerning the accident viewed as an exponent of universal truths; but for the simple sake of seeing his old friend and exchanging greetings. Indeed, where was the use of wasting the good material of friendship by seeking to convert it to a touchstone whereby to measure up ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray


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