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LOGARITHM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The exponent required to produce a given number

Synonyms:

log; logarithm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

exponent; index; power (a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "logarithm"):

common logarithm (a logarithm to the base 10)

Napierian logarithm; natural logarithm (a logarithm to the base e)

Derivation:

logarithmic (of or relating to or using logarithms)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A potency unit for measuring infectious activity of a biologic product or infectious agent preparation equal to a base-10 logarithm of amount of product or agent preparation that causes infection in the 50% of the tissue culture-containing flasks inoculated with that dilution of infectious material in the product potency assay or pathogen activity assay.

(Log10 50 Percent Tissue Culture Infective Dose, NCI Thesaurus)