Meaning & use
exponential
Increasing or decreasing at a constantly growing rate, rather than by a fixed, steady amount.
See it in a sentence
The virus spread at an exponential rate, doubling the number of cases every few days.
Computing power has grown at an almost exponential pace over the last fifty years.
A note on using this word
In everyday speech 'exponential' is often loosely used to mean 'very fast', though mathematically it describes a specific pattern of multiplicative growth.
Words with a similar meaning
rapidaccelerating
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