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
Does this mean we are riding an exponential curve upward toward radical life extension and the total elimination of cancer?
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
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
An exponential curve, whether rising or falling, whether representing growth or decay, is always concave up away from its horizontal asymptote.
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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