scientific notation
noun
1A system of notation or symbols regarded as, or devised to be, systematic and rational.
2A system of representing some given number as a product of a number with an absolute value between 1 and 10 (or between 0·1 and 1) and a power of 10 (as 2 ×102 or 0.2 × 103 for 200).
Origin
Early 19th century.
- castigative
- castigator
- castigatory
- Castile
- Castile soap
- Castilian
- Castilla-La Mancha
- Castilla-León
- casting
- casting couch
- casting director
- casting vote
- cast iron
- castle
- Castlebar
- Castle, Barbara
- castled
- Castlereagh, Viscount
- castles in the air (or in Spain)
- cast light on
- cast lots
- castmate
- cast net
- cast-off
- cast off (or cast something off)