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exponentially

[ek-spoh-nen-shuhl, -spuh-]

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adjective

of or pertaining to an exponent or exponents.

Mathematics.

of or pertaining to the constant e.

(of an equation) having one or more unknown variables in one or more exponents.

noun

Mathematics.

the constant e raised to the power equal to a given expression, as e³^x, which is the exponential of 3x.

any positive constant raised to a power.

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Origin:
1695–1705; exponent + -ial

Related forms

ex·po·nen·tial·ly, adverb

non·ex·po·nen·tial, adjective

non·ex·po·nen·tial·ly, adverb

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Link To exponentially

Example Sentences

And making the decision to withdraw care is exponentially harder when the patient is a baby.

Austenmania seems to have intensified exponentially.

It has been achieved by exponentially increasing the supply of credit.

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And making the decision to withdraw care is exponentially harder when the patient is a baby.

Austenmania seems to have intensified exponentially.

It has been achieved by exponentially increasing the supply of credit.

It's as if the value of an experience rises exponentially with the risk it poses to your life.

Risk of a bad reaction goes down exponentially with age.

Along the way, he also explores the emerging trends in an industry that is growing exponentially.

If you can scrounge up another50 cents, you can increase your indulgence exponentially.

If it wins there, its power could grow exponentially.

Store sales have the potential to grow exponentially.

Preserving digital data is a costly and time-consuming task, especially when the amount of data keeps growing exponentially.

Populations tend to grow exponentially when left to their own devices.

Computers have gotten exponentially more powerful every year.

Completely deterministic dynamics could be chaotic, exponentially sensitive and unstable with respect to its current status.

It's made clear, through graphics and data, that the developing world's problems are growing exponentially.

Taking the time to add a few extra characters outside your comfort zone can increase the number of possibilities exponentially.

The number of bleeding hearts has soared exponentially over the last decade.

The web of human communication begins to exponentially multiply its force and breadth.

Almost everywhere ownership is growing relentlessly, and sometimes exponentially.

Energy demand has been rising exponentially as the region becomes more prosperous.

Readership of popular science books decreases exponentially in the number of equations contained in the manuscript.

That's a large and ever-growing number of startups vying for space to grow as exponentially as they dream.

Unfortunately, the effects of these arrests are exponentially greater than the offense that provoked them.

It can and indeed will come from a variety of sources, enhanced exponentially by the advent of e-mail.

As intellectual-property and other critical data have poured on to networks, the risks of attack have multiplied exponentially.

Kelly ties the advent of military warfare to the development of agriculture, which increased the value of territory exponentially.

As the sphere grows the surface expands exponentially making it appear to be accelerating.

As you shorten the distance between small elements, you leak current at exponentially higher rates.

And social media can increase the impact of the technology exponentially.

College and university spending on things other than education has expanded exponentially nationwide.

But the web grew exponentially, and there weren't exponentially more librarians for hire.

The effort you put into it will be repaid exponentially.

He theorized that populations have an incentive to grow exponentially when there are plentiful resources and space.

As the number of connected devices runs from the thousands into the millions, the policy issues become exponentially more complex.

Meanwhile, the wad's length shrinks in half every time, and thus decreases exponentially fast.

With each open course offered, the content repository grows exponentially.

Cities are the second-largest users of water, and those in the emerging world are growing exponentially.

US money supply is growing exponentially and steeply.

Since then, the demands for remotely-flown spy planes have grown exponentially.

By the looks of it they are increasing awareness exponentially.

The problems, already vast, would swell exponentially if the fighting is prolonged and people flee the cities.

Continued growth at these exponentially increasing rates seems obviously unsustainable to me.

But the real challenge comes from stringing together perfect maneuvers to go for an exponentially higher score.

Developing an online course should not by necessity be exponentially more difficult than developing a traditional course.

States have gotten larger over time as populations have grown and the complexity of societies has grown exponentially.

Meanwhile, digital computers are increasing exponentially in processing power, memory storage and communications bandwidth.

YouTube saw mobile uploads jump exponentially each day.

The number of texts covering the same topics will multiply exponentially and, so, the probability of plagiarism will rise.

The world now contains unimaginably vast amounts of digital information, which is growing exponentially.

And because the risk increases exponentially the more un-vaccinated people exist in a given population.

The amount of drone footage is poised to grow exponentially.

The market for financial derivatives grew exponentially in the last ten years because there was a demand for them.

Exponentially more probable than intelligent social bipedal primates.

Imagine that the price of automobiles drops exponentially.

In high-tech, the mantra goes, everything grows exponentially.

With exponentially rising demand for everything from food to space, energy is hardly your only problem.

Computational power has significantly increased in the last two decades and is growing exponentially.

When different databases are mined simultaneously, the value of information increases exponentially.

Ignore that gushing fountain behind that gated wall over there, that has grown exponentially over the years.

As a result, as system matures, corruption grows exponentially.

Innovation is expanding exponentially and new advantages go to those able to use or implement new technologies.

Power texts have an exponentially greater effect on voting than do single text messages or calls to the show's toll-free phone.

Distance also helps, radiation decreases exponentially with distance from the source.

Designing something exponentially fancier than its surroundings makes.

Not surprisingly, the exponentially increasing numbers of proposals are of declining quality.

Unfortunately the trouble is that our powers of destruction have grown exponentially over time.

The bill exponentially increases fines against abusers as well.

The difficulty of science is increasing exponentially as scientists grope toward.

The cost of acquiring and housing physical materials has grown exponentially in the past couple of decades.

The scene could have been exponentially more engaging without all that needless dead time.

Over the last several years, the smartphone market has grown exponentially.

Third, the potential to enrol online students--where distance is not a factor--is exponentially greater than geographic.

When three dimensions and millions of pixels are involved, the task becomes exponentially complex.

During his reign here, the availability of taped highlights expanded exponentially thanks to the increased use of satellites.

We have exponentially increased the level of complexity of systems and infrastructure to support our worldwide economy.

You'll improve your odds exponentially if you are willing to consider other parts of the country.

Indeed, the number of possible calculations goes up exponentially with the number of qubits.

But when you add application vulnerabilities the number increase exponentially.

Their wealth is expected to grow exponentially in the next five years.

After tenure, my service load went up exponentially and after promotion, it jumped again.

We have a strange feeling this list will grow exponentially in the coming months.

With wise allocations, investments can grow exponentially.

And fiscal amnesia only compounds the bust exponentially.

The decline has the potential to be especially pernicious because turbines are exponentially sensitive to changes in wind speed*.

Singulatarians would respond by predicting that exponentially growing scientific progress will fill the gap.

Extended deep into adulthood, the stakes escalate exponentially.

But as global markets in illicit drugs have expanded exponentially since the early.

But the amounts of vehicles rolling around has exponentially grown.

Almost all indicators are negative and many are in decline exponentially.

Software patents are being approved exponentially and created by non-software establishments.

Membership grew exponentially after news of the violence against protesters broke last week.

Technological progress is accelerating exponentially.

Accordingly, the cost of reaching new consumers increases exponentially as a campaign proceeds.

They were designed to deal with a world that changed at an exponentially slower pace than the world.

Any scientist who thinks he/she can increase food supply to feed an exponentially growing population is living a delusion.

When this realization occurs the opposition will grow exponentially and there will be no way he can stop them all.

By then our knowledge of the world's processes have increased exponentially and the bible would be way outdated.

So they will multiply exponentially up to the limit of the food supply.

Ventilation systems would become exponentially more complex for the tunnel and the coaches.

Collectively, that time and expertise that's focused on a common goal adds up exponentially.

Video-phones will expand video's ubiquity exponentially.

Plus you can transport exponentially more on the ocean than you can on rail.

But as they did, communications volume grew exponentially.

The farther in the future you try to predict the exponentially worse your predictive ability gets.

The number of applications that need to be written is growing exponentially.

It's the fighter jet effect, each new iteration becomes exponentially more expensive.

Crises have hit exponentially faster over two decades, in lockstep with deregulation.

It has grown exponentially as the article suggested.

The population is growing exponentially at a rate that industrial development would never support.

And in the resulting virtuous cycles, migration's benefits grow exponentially.

COLLAPSE

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World English Dictionary

exponential (ˌɛkspəʊˈnɛnʃəl)

—*adj*
1.	maths (of a function, curve, series, or equation) of, containing, or involving one or more numbers or quantities raised to an exponent, esp e^x
2.	maths exp raised to the power of e, the base of natural logarithms
3.	of or involving an exponent or exponents
4.	informal very rapid

—n
5.	maths an exponential function, etc

expo'nentially

—*adv*

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

exponential

1704, from exponent + -al (1). Related: Exponentially.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

exponential

(ěk'spə-něn'shəl) Pronunciation Key
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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