| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Exponential growth | In mathematics, a quantity that grows exponentially is one that grows at a rate proportional to its size. This means that for any exponentially growing quantity, the larger the quantity gets, the faster it grows. But it also implies that the relationship between the size of the dependent variable and its rate of growth is governed by a strict law, of the simplest kind: direct proportion. It is proved in calculus that this law requires that the quantity is given by the exponential function, if we use the correct time scale. This explains the name. (references) | ||
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| Exponential Growth | Administration | (Statistics) A rate of growth characterized by a fixed percentage each time period, e.g., a 10 percent growth each period of time. Represented by the equation: N (t) = N | |
| Exponential growth | Geology | 1: A rate of growth of an organism, a part of an organism, or a population of organisms which, when graphed, produces an exponential or logarithmic curve. Such a rate occurs, for example, during the exponential growth phase, when a population of bacterial (or other) cells divide at a constant rate so that the total number of cells doubles with each division. (references) | |
| 2: Growth of a microorganism where the cell number doubles within a fixed time period. (references) | |||
| Exponential growth | Weather | Growth in which some quantity, such as population size, increases by a constant percentage of the whole during each year or other time period; when the increase in quantity over time is plotted, this type of growth yields a curve shaped like the letter J. (references) | |
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| Biological exponential growth | 3 | Biological exponential growth | 3 | |
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