exponentially
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ɛkspə(ʊ)ˈnɛnʃəli/
Adverb

exponentially

  1. (mathematics, sciences) In an exponential manner.
    • 1992, Clark Glymour, Thinking Things Through: An Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievements, MIT Press (1997), ISBN 978-0-262-57119-7, page 333 ↗:
      But every known algorithm for this problem requires a number of steps that increases exponentially as n increases.
    • 2000, Shuji Nakamura et al., The Blue Laser Diode: The Complete Story, Second Revised and Enlarged Edition, Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-66505-2, page 69 ↗:
      Therefore, if absorption causes an attenuation of the oscillation amplitude, the temperature must decrease exponentially with increasing thickness.
    • 2008, Henri Benisty et al., Photonic Crystals: Towards Nanoscale Photonic Devices, Second Edition, Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-78346-6, 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.
  2. (proscribed) rapidly, greatly
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