Mantissa refers to an addition of little importance or the decimal part of a logarithm.
Mantissa é uma adição de pouca importância ou a parte decimal de um logaritmo.
| Front | mantissa \man-TIS-uh\ |
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| Back | noun 1. An addition of little importance. 2. The decimal part of a logarithm or the positive fractional part of a number. [Via Latin mantisa/mantissa (makeweight, something put in a scale to complete a needed weight), from a now extinct language, Etruscan, once spoken in what is now Tuscany, Italy. Earliest documented use: 1641.] "Are we supposed to think that most criticism of Mr. John Fowles is a mantissa?" |
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