Exponential

Applies to any rate of growth which is larger than some expected rate of growth.

In common usage, however, only a small sample size is available, and exponential applies to sufficiently large positive rate of growth.

In mathematical terms, exponential growth is "superlinear"

Person 1: The number of African American presidents in the US is growing exponentially.

Person 2: That's right!

Person 1: The ant population in my kitchen seems to double every week.

Person 2: Oh... well at least it's not growing exponentially

Person 3: x log x grows exponentially.

by FineHall October 14, 2009

exponentially

Someone or something that exceeds far more than expectation. To "blow something out of the water".

Christopher was exponentially better at rock climbing than Stephanie. He blew her out of the water when they raced to the top!

by Linsey R. Morton June 21, 2007

exponentiality

the fact of life where all work for any given task that would equal 90% is done again to reach the 100% goal, thereby having an exponential effect. This case is not always a 90/10 degree and can deviate either way to some degree. In terms of college, this can lead to battle of whether to spend the enormous amount of time working for that perfect score, or catching up on not so needed sleep. For most students, the answer is almost immediately obvious.

By following the natural law of exponentiality, I decided to not put in the extra book of research for my last essay on "Theories behind Moore's Law" for my Professor....I got a B+.

by MLWP December 31, 2008

exponentialevil

craziest halo player ever. much better then icanttype.

i wish i was as good as exponentialevil

by exponentialevil March 3, 2005

Error in the Exponent

A number that is given with very large uncertainties, such that it might be ten or a hundred (or more) times larger or smaller than the value given. Astrophysics is famous for having 'errors in the exponent'

..."We estimate the minimum viable population to be somewhere between 100 and 5000" (extremes from the wikipedia article)

... "in our universe protons decay with a time scale in the range 10^33 - 10^45 years"

These quantities don't have an error in the value, they have an error in the exponent.

by Lab_Monkey July 7, 2011

Exponential

A sophisticated mathematical term that describes rapid growth of imaginary things, or things that can’t be measured

We can’t win reelection exponentially.

by Obiden-Bama March 9, 2020

Exponential Apocalypse

The act of predicting the apocalypse will come exponentially recently.

After an apocalypse day (2000, 2012, ect) believing that the next apocalypse must happen soon because for some reason it didn't happen on the day everyone thought it would.

Example of an Exponential Apocalypse:

1999: DUDE! the worlds gonna end in 2000! all the equipment will fail and the nukes will launch and the planes will fall out of the sky!!!
2001: oh... well, DUDE! the worlds gonna end in 2012! The mayans said so.
2013: oh... well, DUDE! the worlds gonna end in 2016! Its the day of armegedan
2017: AHHH! now the worlds gonna end this month!
Feb: AHHH now its gonna end tomorrow...
...and so on and so forth

by Dr. Urban V. Dicktionary February 9, 2010