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mantissa

noun
/mænˈtɪsə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mantissa, mantīsa, of unknown origin (said by Festus to be a loanword from Etruscan, but it may actually be from Celtic, possibly through Etruscan mediation).

  1. borrowed from mantissa

Definitions

  1. A minor addition to a text.

  2. The part of a common logarithm after the decimal point, the fractional part of a…

    The part of a common logarithm after the decimal point, the fractional part of a logarithm.

  3. The significand

    The significand; that part of a floating-point number or number in scientific notation that contains its significant digits.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mantissa. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA