Definition of Exponential. Meaning of Exponential. Synonyms of Exponential

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Definition of Exponential

Exponential
Exponential Ex`po*nen"tial, a. [Cf. F. exponentiel.] Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function. Exponential curve, a curve whose nature is defined by means of an exponential equation. Exponential equation, an equation which contains an exponential quantity, or in which the unknown quantity enters as an exponent. Exponential quantity (Math.), a quantity whose exponent is unknown or variable, as a^x. Exponential series, a series derived from the development of exponential equations or quantities.

Meaning of Exponential from wikipedia

- Look up exponential or exponentially in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Exponential may refer to any of several mathematical topics related to exponentiation...
- In probability theory and statistics, the exponential distribution or negative exponential distribution is the probability distribution of the distance...
- mathematics, the exponential function is the unique real function which maps zero to one and has a derivative equal to its value. The exponential of a variable...
- Exponential growth occurs when a quantity grows as an exponential function of time. The quantity grows at a rate directly proportional to its present...
- Exponential smoothing or exponential moving average (EMA) is a rule of thumb technique for smoothing time series data using the exponential window function...
- In mathematics, the matrix exponential is a matrix function on square matrices analogous to the ordinary exponential function. It is used to solve systems...
- In probability and statistics, an exponential family is a parametric set of probability distributions of a certain form, specified below. This special...
- an exponential. In this sense, problems that have sub-exponential time algorithms are somewhat more tractable than those that only have exponential algorithms...
- A quantity is subject to exponential decay if it decreases at a rate proportional to its current value. Symbolically, this process can be expressed by...
- Look up backoff in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Exponential backoff is an algorithm that uses feedback to multiplicatively decrease the rate of some...