Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scientific notation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English

Syllables: sci-en-tific no-ta-tion
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a method of writing, or of displaying real numbers as a decimal number between 1 and 10 followed by an integer power of 10

Uncountable

noun

an alternative format of such a decimal number immediately followed by E and an integer

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The number 0.00236 is written in scientific notation as 2.36×10⁻³ or as 2.36E-3."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does scientific notation mean?: a method of writing, or of displaying real numbers as a decimal number between 1 and 10 followed by an integer power of 10

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