exponentially
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From exponential + -ly.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]exponentially (comparative more exponentially, superlative most exponentially)
- (mathematics, sciences) In an exponential manner.
- Coordinate terms: arithmetically, geometrically
- 2008, Henri Benisty et al., Photonic Crystals: Towards Nanoscale Photonic Devices, Second Edition, Springer, →ISBN, page 216:
- It can be readily derived from Eqs. 6.26 and 6.32 that the field generated by these incident evanescent waves inside the slab do [sic] not decay away exponentially from the upper interface, but increases exponentially as y decreases.
- (proscribed) rapidly, greatly
- 2007, Michael Glenn Maness, Would You Lie to Save a Life: Love Will Find a Way Home, page 357:
- The more serious a Christian is about God's kingdom, the more exponentially complicating that venture is […]
- 2008, Beth Kery, Take a Stranger No More, page 27:
- He'd felt like Kathryn's soul was in her eyes as she'd regarded him for those precious few seconds... and her spirit was even more exponentially beautiful than […]
Translations
[edit]in an exponential manner
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