"exponent" in the noun sense
1. advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
2. exponent
someone who expounds and interprets or explains
3. exponent, power, index
a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
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