Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The number for which a given logarithm stands; for example, if log x equals y, then x is the antilogarithm of y.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mathematics: The complement of the logarithm of any sine, tangent, or secant up to that of 90 degrees.
- noun As commonly used, the number corresponding to any logarithm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Math.) The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mathematics The
number of which a given number is thelogarithm (to a givenbase ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the number of which a given number is the logarithm
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Examples
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The inverse of the logarithm is call the antilogarithm
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The antilogarithm function is another name for the inverse of the logarithmic function.
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The antilogarithm function is another name for the inverse of the logarithmic function.
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The antilogarithm function is another name for the inverse of the logarithmic function.
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-. (person) denying doctrine of the fall of Man. antilogarithm
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Although the above practical advantages are not important for numerical work today, they are used in graphical analysis (see The antilogarithm
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