exponentiation

[ek-spoh-nen-shee-ey-shuhn, -spuh-]

noun

Mathematics.

1. the raising of a number to any given power.

exponentiation

1. The act of raising a quantity to a power.

Word History and Origins

Origin of exponentiation¹

1900–05; exponenti(al) + -ation, on model of substantiation ( def. ), differentiation ( def. ), etc.

Example Sentences

Multiplication and exponentiation in the complex plane became geometric ideas; you could actually see them happening.

From Literature

Glaz composed phrases to represent each prime number and combined them as dictated by each number’s factorization, using “for” for exponentiation and “in” for multiplication.

From Scientific American

Subtraction, division and exponentiation are nonassociative operations: Who’s clumped with whom matters.

From New York Times

Specifically, if we want to think of multiplication as repeated addition, exponentiation as repeated multiplication, and ↑↑ as repeated exponentiation, three groups of five is the way to go.

From Scientific American

And then I taught my students Fermat’s Little Theorem, a fundamental result about exponentiation in modular arithmetic.

From Scientific American