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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
logarithm /ˈlɒgərɪð(ə)m, -rɪθ-/

▶noun a quantity representing the power to which a fixed number (the base) must be raised to produce a given number.

– derivatives
logarithmic adjective,
logarithmically adverb.

– origin C17: from mod. L. logarithmus, from Gk logos ‘reckoning, ratio’ + arithmos ‘number’.

'logarithm' also found in these Oxford entries:

antilogarithm - characteristic - common logarithm - gain - ln - log - log - log-normal - mantissa - Napierian logarithm - natural logarithm

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