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exponential

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for exponential.

Editorial note

Means games in y = in ~20 years top games = today's movies assuming steady exponential growth.

Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

Relating to an exponent.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of exponential gathered in one view.

adjective

Relating to an exponent.

noun

(mathematics) Any function that has an exponent as an independent variable.

adjective

(loosely) Characterised by a very rapid rate of change, especially increase, or merely a very large amount or degree.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for exponential.

adjective

Relating to an exponent.

noun

(mathematics) Any function that has an exponent as an independent variable.

adjective

(loosely) Characterised by a very rapid rate of change, especially increase, or merely a very large amount or degree.

adjective

(mathematics) Expressed in terms of an exponent (power of a base), the base often being 10 or e.

Example sentences

1

Means games in y = in ~20 years top games = today's movies assuming steady exponential growth.

2

You would do exponential average rate of change calculation over linear progression to compute an estimated date.

3

Our notation for exponents is okay but not great, and having two notations for the exponential function is especially confusing.

4

One piece of hard learned advice: add exponential back off in failure to your clients, now.

5

Worse, this can be exponential for A2=A1+A1, A3=A2+A2, which leads to A1 being recomputed 5 times.

6

They also worked: quality in terms of errata varied from staying steady to improving over time despite exponential increases in complexity.

7

The natural state is for exponential growth to continue until resource pressure limits it, which is to say, until abundance ends.

8

Since long copyright term exists solely to protect media companies' IP brand families, there could be an exponential tax on copyright extension.

9

With free (or freemium) you can get a kind of exponential growth curve that is incredibly hard to achieve with a paid product.

10

Many people assume that because technological progress has been exponential last century for humans, that this can be projected indefinitely into the future.

11

Most of this progress is just due various forms of exponential growth and decay (cost of bandwidth and storage, speed of cpus, etc).

12

I have had access to computers since about 1960 (thanks Dad!) and the improvements have been exponential.

Quote examples

1

Questions like "is there a number satisfying a numerical predicate in some range?" or the value of a trigonmetric or exponential expression will come out "correct" (but you might get an answer like (-inf, inf)).

2

It's very hard to make a zombie scary if you've got it too low on the uncanny valley that people can't get past going "aww it's so cute!" I haven't got the creepy feeling I have from other attempts, so I'd likely put them on the upward exponential out of the uncanny valley.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use exponential in a sentence?

Means games in y = in ~20 years top games = today's movies assuming steady exponential growth.

What does exponential mean?

Relating to an exponent.

What part of speech is exponential?

exponential is commonly used as adjective, noun.