exponential increase

collocation in English

meaningsofexponentialandincrease

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exponential
adjective
uk
/ˌek.spəˈnen.ʃəl/
us
/ˌek.spoʊˈnen.ʃəl/
formal
An exponential rate of increase becomes quicker and quicker as the thing that increases ...
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increase
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪn.kriːs/
us
/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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(Definition ofexponentialandincreasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Anexponentialincreasein hospital admission for fractures was observed between 60 and 90 years.
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In any case, thisexponentialincreasein robot utilization underlines the fact that robots are here to stay.
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During normal pregnancy, there is anexponentialincreasein cortisol concentrations in the fetal circulation.
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Thisexponentialincreaseof separation with height is very different from the linear spread of vortex rings predicted by equation (5).
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Their results showed anexponentialincreasewith gestational age.
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One indicator of this process is the almostexponentialincreasein probability of death from late adolescence to old age.
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Exponentialincreaseis in evidence, with the respective species tending to accumulate towards the electrode of opposite polarity to their respective charges.
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These graphs predominantly exhibit a logarithmic increase over anexponentialincreasedue to the fact that the air is becoming 'swamped' with charged species.
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However, since asset markets show anexponentialincreasein the long run, we have included a drift term.
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As a result, there has been anexponentialincreasein the number of older drivers in the developed world.
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Theexponentialincreaseof function evaluations with respect to the dimension is reduced substantially.
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In the absence of other factors, selfreplication leads to anexponentialincreasein the element copy number.
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A trend analysis indicates anexponentialincreasein vocabulary production in the second year, followed by a further expansion.
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Also, theexponentialincreasein radical prostatectomy rates has not been mirrored by a fall in mortality rates (4).
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However, national medical expenditures jumped from 410 billion yen ($1.1 billion) in 1960 to 31,124 billion yen ($259.4 billion) in 2002, anexponentialincrease(13).
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This is anexponentialincreaseof the mean energy with each ionization recombination cycle.
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This process is reinforced and multiplied on the delays resulting in anexponentialincreasein density, dynamic, tessitura and hence intensity over the course of the work.
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Not surprisingly, thisexponentialincreasein the number of retailers reflected a corresponding rise in the amount of beer that was being consumed during the 1830s.
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