exponential curve
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of exponential curve
First recorded in 1695–1705
Example Sentences
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"We're on the flat part of the exponential curve."
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
The rise in volume in the Beethoven traces an exponential curve, with a long passage of tense quiet leading to a swift increase of volume.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2020
What’s needed now is continued policy growth that will “ensure that the exponential curve of solutions outpaces that of climate impacts, and drives net emissions to zero by 2050,” they write.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 6, 2018
In the case of positive data, which is the most common case, an exponential curve is always concave up, and a logarithmic curve always concave down.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
The energy it would receive from the Sun as it approached, an exponential curve.
From The Leech by Connell
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