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Garbage vs Logarithm - What's the difference?

garbage | logarithm |

As nouns the difference between garbage and logarithm

is that garbage is the bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal while logarithm is (mathematics) for a number x, the power to which a given base number must be raised in order to obtain x written \log_b x for example, \log_{10} 1000 = 3 because 10^3 = 1000 and \log_2 16 = 4 because 2^4 = 16.

As a verb garbage

is (obsolete) to eviscerate.

garbage

English

Alternative forms

* garbidge

Noun

(-)
  • The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
  • Food waste material of any kind.
    • Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays
  • Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
    • The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
  • A place or receptacle for waste material.
    • He threw the newspaper into the garbage .
  • Nonsense; gibberish.
  • (often, attributively) Something or someone worthless.
  • * 2009 , David R. Portney, 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips , ISBN 9780967851488, p. 8:
    • Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.

    Synonyms

    * junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste * See also

    Antonyms

    * artifact, asset, catch, find, prize, recyclable, resource, treasure, valuable

    Derived terms

    * garbage bag * garbage bin * garbage can * garbage collect * garbage collector * garbage collection * garbage disposal * garbage dump * * garbage man * garbage mitt * garbage scow * garbage time * garbage truck * garbo * garbologist

    Verb

    (garbag)
  • (obsolete) To eviscerate.
  • * 1674 , , ''The Passenger Pigeon , 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
    • I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.

    Synonyms

    * gut * disembowel * eviscerate

    See also

    * American English

    logarithm

    English

    (wikipedia logarithm)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) For a number x, the power to which a given base number must be raised in order to obtain x. Written \log_b x. For example, \log_{10} 1000 = 3 because 10^3 = 1000 and \log_2 16 = 4 because 2^4 = 16.
    • For a currency which uses denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, etc., each jump in the base-10 logarithm from one denomination to the next higher is either 0.3010 or 0.3979.

    Synonyms

    * log

    Derived terms

    * common logarithm, common log * natural logarithm, natural log * logarithmancy

    Anagrams

    * algorithm

    See also

    * ln