- 1呈指數地;急遽地
Growing or increasing extremely fast, at a rate that itself keeps speeding up — not just a steady increase, but one that gets faster and faster. It comes from math (exponential growth), but people now use it more loosely to just mean "very, very fast."
core核心畫面
組成exponent (in math, the small raised number showing how many times to multiply something) + -ial + -ly.
同家族的字
- exponentthe base math word this comes from
- exponentialthe adjective form
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
exponentiallyadv/ɛkspə(ʊ)ˈnɛnʃəli/
- 1
mathematicssciencesIn an exponential manner.
- But every known algorithm for this problem requires a number of steps that increases exponentially as n increases.
- Therefore, if absorption causes an attenuation of the oscillation amplitude, the temperature must decrease exponentially with increasing thickness.
- 2
rapidly, greatly
- The more serious a Christian is about God's kingdom, the more exponentially complicating that venture is […]
- He'd felt like Kathryn's soul was in her eyes as she'd regarded him for those precious few seconds... and her spirit was even more exponentially beautiful than […]
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