See Also: urbanized(dictionary)

mantissa (iou) and urbanized (oh)


mantissa (iou)



mantissa noun. M17.
[Latin mantis(s)a makeweight, perh. from Etruscan.]
An addition of comparatively small importance, esp. to a text or discourse. M-L17.
Math.
a. The part of a logarithm after the decimal point. M19.
b. The number or quantity to which an exponent is appended; spec. in Computing, a number (usu. of a fixed number of digits) which is multiplied by a specified power of a base to represent any number by floating-point representation. M20.

urbanized (oh)



an urbanized country or area has a lot of houses, factories, shops, offices etc
::the most heavily urbanized regions
in an urbanized society, there are a lot of people who live and work in towns and cities
::During the 19th century, Britain became the world's first modern urbanized society.
-- urbanization /7:bEnaI5zeIFEn ?@ 7:rbEnE-/ n [U]
::the transformation of the social structure by urbanization