exponential

Speech parts

1. exponential - Noun

2. exponential - Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

exponential function accelerating active armorial digital mathematical equation dramatic representative integral aggressive arithmetic boom explosive differential
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Antonyms

nonexponential poor minor dying insufficient diminished
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Hypernyms

function map mapping single-valued function mathematical function

Phrases with the word

exponential logic exponential law exponential climb function exponential development function exponential escalation function exponential expansion function

Examples

Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow. Nicholas Negroponte

You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell's own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb. Frederik Pohl

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. Kenneth Boulding

The odds against becoming the next Frederick Forsythe are, of course, somewhere between merely exponential and astronomical-incredible. I'll settle for a book-jacket with my name on it. Tom Clancy

It is in the nature of exponential growth that events develop extremely slowly for extremely long periods of time, but as one glides through the knee of the curve, events erupt at an increasingly furious pace. And that is what we will experience as we enter the twenty-first century. Ray Kurzweil

Close letter words and terms

exponent exponent of inseparability exponentiable exponential advance function exponential advancement function exponential amplification function