Borrowed fromLatinmantissa,mantīsa, of unknown origin (said byFestus to be a loanword fromEtruscan, but it may actually be fromCeltic,[1] possibly through Etruscan mediation).
mantissa (pluralmantissasormantissae)
The use ofmantissa to refer to significant digits in a floating point number or scientific notation is discouraged by some in favor ofsignificand, due to earlier distinct usage for the logarithm. It remains in widespread use in the US, however.
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mantissa
| Inflection ofmantissa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | mantissa | mantissat | |
| genitive | mantissan | mantissojen | |
| partitive | mantissaa | mantissoja | |
| illative | mantissaan | mantissoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | mantissa | mantissat | |
| accusative | nom. | mantissa | mantissat |
| gen. | mantissan | ||
| genitive | mantissan | mantissojen mantissainrare | |
| partitive | mantissaa | mantissoja | |
| inessive | mantissassa | mantissoissa | |
| elative | mantissasta | mantissoista | |
| illative | mantissaan | mantissoihin | |
| adessive | mantissalla | mantissoilla | |
| ablative | mantissalta | mantissoilta | |
| allative | mantissalle | mantissoille | |
| essive | mantissana | mantissoina | |
| translative | mantissaksi | mantissoiksi | |
| abessive | mantissatta | mantissoitta | |
| instructive | — | mantissoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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