单词 | mantissa |
释义 | mantissa /man tis"euh/, n. 1. Math. the decimal part of a common logarithm. Cf. characteristic (def. 3a). 2. Obs. an addition of little or no importance, as to a literary work. [1860-65; < L, var. of mantisa addition, makeweight, said to be from Etruscan; logarithmic mantissa so called because it is additional to the characteristic or integral part (term introduced by H. Briggs)] |
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