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exponential

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ex·po·nen·tial  (ksp-nnshl)
adj.
1. Of or relating to an exponent.
2. Mathematics
a. Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent.
b. Expressed in terms of a designated power of e, the base of natural logarithms.

expo·nential·ly adv.

exponential
Adjective
1. Maths of or involving numbers raised to an exponent
2. Informal very rapid
exponentially adv

exponential  (ksp-nnshl)
Relating to a mathematical expression containing one or more exponents. Something is said to increase or decrease exponentially if its rate of change must be expressed using exponents. A graph of such a rate would appear not as a straight line, but as a curve that continually becomes steeper or shallower.
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Noun1.exponentialexponential - a function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent
function, mapping, mathematical function, single-valued function, map - (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
Adj.1.exponential - of or involving exponents; "exponential growth"
Translations
German exponential [ɛkspəuˈnɛnʃl] adjexponentiell;
(Math) (function etc) → Exponential-

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