adjective
- increasing or growing very rapidly
- relating to or involving mathematical exponents
Usage: mathematics
noun
- a mathematical function in which a variable appears as an exponent
Usage: mathematics
Examples
- The company experienced exponential growth in sales.
- Population growth can be exponential under ideal conditions.
- The spread of the virus showed an exponential pattern.
- Students learned about exponential functions in algebra class.
- The exponential curve rises sharply on the graph.
- Technology advances at an exponential rate.
- The exponential equation was difficult to solve.