Noun
(mathematics) The growth in the value of a quantity, in which the rate of growth is proportional to the instantaneous value of the quantity; for example, when the value has doubled, the rate of increase will also have doubled. The rate may be positive or negative.
(by extension, proscribed) Very rapid growth.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgAnyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. Kenneth Boulding
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
What's not fully realized is that Moore's Law was not the first paradigm to bring exponential growth to computers. We had electromechanical calculators, relay-based computers, vacuum tubes, and transistors. Every time one paradigm ran out of steam, another took over. Ray Kurzweil
Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe. Dee Dee Myers
Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth. Sanjay Kumar
Exponential growth main The most basic way of modeling population dynamics is to assume that the rate of growth of a population depends only upon the population size at that time and the per capita growth rate of the organism. Source: Internet