rate of change
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The key to reading the earnings revisions tea leaves is to look at the rate of change in guidance on estimates, as opposed to the latest estimates on their own.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026
“But we’ve been arguing since mid-March that what’s really important from a market perspective is the rate of change, not the level.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026
“The rate of change in our business is so high right now that the limitations it would put in our technical development efforts make that a pretty unattractive proposition for us.”
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
Affordability isn’t a synonym for inflation, which is the rate of change in the overall price level.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
In Darwin's scheme, the rate of change of an organism was generally fixed, while the rate of natural selection could be amplified to accelerate evolution or dampened to decelerate it.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
