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Exponential

noun

A function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent. Synonym: exponential function.

adjective

Of or involving exponents.

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"Exponential" Quotes from Famous Books

... really inspired it. It seems simple to explain such a state of affairs as due to "self-deception," but this explanation is often mythical. Most people, in thinking about punishment, have had no more need to hide their vindictive impulses from themselves than they have had to hide the exponential theorem. Our impulses are not patent to a casual observation, but are only to be discovered by a scientific study of our actions, in the course of which we must regard ourselves as objectively as we should the ...

— The Analysis of Mind • Bertrand Russell

... progression is characteristic of simple radio-active processes, and can be expressed mathematically by a simple exponential formula. ...

— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

... the case, everything in nature is a correspondent of some thing—is expressive of and consequently representative and exponential of something—above it or behind it; and that something is an idea—a thing not material. It follows, then, that every object in nature has real character in itself as a representative of an idea; just as, say, an anchor is representative of ...

— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly

... case, everything in nature is a correspondent of some thing—is expressive of and consequently representative and exponential of something—above it or behind it; and that something is an idea—a thing not material. It follows, then, that every object in nature has real character in itself as a representative of an idea; just as, say, an anchor ...

— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly

... everything in nature is a correspondent of some thing—is expressive of and consequently representative and exponential of something—above it or behind it; and that something is an idea—a thing not material. It follows, then, that every object in nature has real character in itself as a representative of an idea; just as, say, an anchor is representative ...

— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly