exponent
n.a number or letter that shows how many times a base number is multiplied by itself. You see this in math when you write 2^3 to mean 2 times 2 times 2.
n.a number or symbol placed above and after another number to indicate the power to which the former is to be raised.
“The exponent in 10^5 is five.”
“When you multiply two numbers with the same base, you add their exponents together.”
“In scientific notation, the exponent allows researchers to express extremely large or small quantities in a more manageable and standardized format.”
“He talks about an industry which, he admits, often makes his “blood boil”, football becoming the “maximum exponent of greed”.”
From Latin expōnēns, present participle of expōnō (“to expose; to exhibit, display, set out; to explain”), from ex- (“out, away”) + pōnō (“to lay, place, put”).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.