MANTISSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mantissa mean? 

• MANTISSA (noun)
  The noun MANTISSA has 1 sense:

1. the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the mantissa is .808

  Familiarity information: MANTISSA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANTISSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the mantissa is .808

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

fixed-point part; mantissa

Hypernyms ("mantissa" is a kind of...):

fraction (the quotient of two rational numbers)