Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Exponential"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Exponential \Ex`po*nen"tial\, a. [Cf. F. exponentiel.]
Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an
exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential
function.
{Exponential curve}, a curve whose nature is defined by means
of an exponential equation.
{Exponential equation}, an equation which contains an
exponential quantity, or in which the unknown quantity
enters as an exponent.
{Exponential quantity} (Math.), a quantity whose exponent is
unknown or variable, as a^{x}.
{Exponential series}, a series derived from the development
of exponential equations or quantities.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
exponential
adj : of or involving exponents; "exponential growth"
n : a function in which an independent variable appears as an
exponent [syn: {exponential function}]
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