Other forms: exponents
An exponent is somebody who explains or champions a method. A leading exponent, an exponent of the style, the great exponents.
It is used most in music and in sport for the finest practitioners of a technique. In mathematics an exponent is the small raised number showing a power, which is a quite separate sense.
1nounexponentSomebody who explains or champions a method.
“She is a leading exponent of natural childbirth and has written several books on it.”
exponent is a champion.
Latin exponens comes from exponere, to set out or explain.
Latin
expōnēns
English, today
exponent
Built from
From Latin expōnēns, of expōnō (“to expose; to exhibit, display, set out; to explain”), from ex- + pōnō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA