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exponential

/ek-spoh-nen-shuhl, -spuh-/US // ˌɛk spoʊˈnɛn ʃəl, -spə- //UK // (ˌɛkspəʊˈnɛnʃəl) //

指数式,指数,指数型,指数级

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to an exponent or exponents.
    • : Mathematics. of or relating to the constant e. having one or more unknown variables in one or more exponents.
    • : rising or expanding at a steady, rapid rate:a city experiencing exponential growth.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Mathematics. the constant e raised to the power equal to a given expression, as e3x, which is the exponential of 3x.any positive constant raised to a power.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, the world has watched the exponential growth of wealth inequality and fossil-fuel-driven climate change.

  • To figure this out, some solvers fit exponential models directly to the data.

  • As group size grows, 4VA concentration shoots up, potentially broadcasting a larger signal and contributing to the exponential growth of swarms.

  • Scientists often describe trends that increase very dramatically as being exponential.

  • If everything goes to plan it may not be long before an army of robot scientists catapults us into a new age of exponential progress.

  • They started fast, grew at an almost exponential rate and then slowed, she wrote.

  • The numbers are still small, but the growth has been exponential since the first atheist church service was held in January.

  • Yet the exponential decline in the cost means that the threat posed by the fabrication of lethal bio-pathogens is rising.

  • This trend will only make more sense as the exponential cost drop continues.

  • It has annual revenues exceeding $6 billion, an exponential improvement from the 1990s.

  • It multiplies and surges to its fulfillment at an exponential rate.

  • He pioneered the standard exponential notation for cubes and higher powers of numbers.

  • The inevitable outcome is an exponential explosion in computing and networking power.

  • The energy it would receive from the Sun as it approached, an exponential curve.