Potenciación
La potenciación es una
multiplicación de varios factores iguales, al igual que la
multiplicación es una
suma de varios sumandos iguales, (la potenciación se considera una multiplicación abreviada).En la nomenclatura de la potenciación se diferencian dos partes, la
base y el
exponente, que se escribe en forma de superíndice. El exponente determina la cantidad de veces que la base se multiplica por sí misma. Por ejemplo:en general:
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exponente
exponent
exponente
adj.
exponent
exponente (m)
n.
index; exponent
exponentă
v. exponentă
exponente
= spokesman [spokesmen, -pl.], exponent, expositor, spokeswoman [spokeswomen, -pl.].
Nota: Femenino.
Ex: The philosophy of these critics was enunciated by one of their most prominent spokesmen, the famous Thomas Carlyle.
Ex: The Commission of the European Communities is also the exponent of Community as distinct from national interests in the Council of Ministers.
Ex: Reference work has been ill-served in the past by its expositors and theoreticians: its extensive literature of several hundred papers and books is swollen by a mass of the transient and the trivial.
Ex: The UK Labour Party spokeswoman on information technology reviewed some of the future applications of the information superhighway to education.
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* exponente de un número = superscript numeral.