English words for '(mathematics) Less than exponential'
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noun
- (mathematics, arithmetic, countable) A mathematical problem involving exponentiation.
- (mathematics, arithmetic) The process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors, where the exponent specifies the number of factors to multiply.
- the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
noun
- (mathematics) A characteristic of an exponential function, represented by τ in the function:
- (physics) The time in which a physical system's response to a step-wise change in an external variable reaches approximately 63% of its final (asymptotic) value.
- For radioactivity: the decay constant.
- the ratio of the inductance of a circuit in henries to its resistance in ohms
- (electronics) the time required for the current or voltage in a circuit to rise or fall exponentially through approximately 63 per cent of its amplitude
adj
- (mathematics) Characterised by a rate of change that is proportional to the value of the varying quantity, or, equivalently, by a doubling or halving over successive fixed intervals of time or other parameter, described as exponential growth or exponential decay.
- Relating to an exponent.
- (loosely) Characterised by a very rapid rate of change, especially increase, or merely a very large amount or degree.
- (mathematics) Expressed in terms of an exponent (power of a base), the base often being 10 or e.
- of or involving exponents
noun
prep
- (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
- Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.
- Indicating a degree or level reached.
- So as to bring about or elicit (an effect or outcome).
- Denotes the end of a range.
- According to.
- Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
- In the direction of; towards.
- (informal) With implied hour.
- So as to become or reach: indicating a terminal state resulting from an action.
- Used more-or-less idiomatically with various verbs: keep to the left, agree to the proposal, attend to the matter, etc. See the individual entries.
- (Canada, Cornwall (UK), Newfoundland, Wales, West Midlands (UK)) At.
- Indicating destination or final position: In the direction of, so as to arrive at or reach.
- Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
- (time) Preceding (the stated hour).
- So as to contact, press against, impact, etc.
- Used to indicate a ratio or comparison; compared to, as against.
adv
conj
particle
noun
- An exponentiation symbol or operator ⟨＾⟩.
- (nonstandard) A circumflex ⟨ ˆ ⟩.
- (nonstandard) A háček ⟨ ˇ ⟩.
- (user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called a cursor, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
- A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point.
- a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text
adj
- (mathematics, curve fitting) Increasing exponentially or as a higher polynomial power.
- (dermatology) Having unusually pronounced creases marking the skin.
- (mathematics, of groups) Displaying a generalization of sofic that applies to finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces.
- (mathematics, of a function of hyperreals) Both additive and homogeneous for hyperreal scalars.
- (mathematics, of a sequence) Converging very quickly to a limit so that the ratio of adjacent terms tends to zero.
adj
- (mathematics) Set to a lower bound.
- Of a pedal, pushed all the way down, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, figuratively) Amazed or greatly surprised.
- Struck down or leveled with the floor.
- Brought to the ground.
- Hung near the base of a wall.
- (informal, figuratively) Impressed.
- (informal, figuratively) Finished; done for.
- (informal, figuratively) Overpowered.
- Covered or furnished with a floor.
- Silenced by a conclusive answer or retort.
- provided with a floor
verb
noun
- (mathematics) the ratio of two homogeneous polynomials, such that the sum of the exponents in a term of the numerator is equal to the sum of the exponents in a term of the denominator.
- (mathematics) homogeneous polynomial
- (mathematics) a function f(x) which has the property that for any c, f(cx)=cf(x).
noun
- (mathematics) The portion of a Laurent series that has negative exponents.
- Any of the forms of a word which contain its stem(s) in the simplest form, or such a form that, when taken with all the other principal parts (showing various inflections), allows the entire paradigm to be derived.
- (mathematics) A polynomial approximation of a power series, made up of monomials whose indices lie in the Newton diagram of the power series and which occur with the same coefficients as in the original power series.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see principal, part.
adj
noun
adj
- (mathematics) Reduced to a lower degree or form.
- Suffering from clinical depression.
- Unhappy; despondent.
- Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
- lower than previously
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
verb
name
- (complex analysis) A formula which links complex exponentiation with trigonometric functions:
- (differential geometry) A formula which calculates the normal curvature of an arbitrary direction in the tangent plane in terms of the principal curvatures κ₁ and κ₂ and the angle θ which that direction makes with the first principal direction:
adj
verb
- (transitive) To conclude.
- (intransitive) To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- (intransitive) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- (transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
- (intransitive) To issue or result.
- (transitive) To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To kill someone or something.
- (transitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- (transitive) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
noun
- (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
- The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
- Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
- The process of abbreviating.
- (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
- (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
- (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
- (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
- shortening something by omitting parts of it
- a shortened form of a word or phrase
noun
- (mathematics) An arbitrarily small quantity.
- (finance) The percentage change in an option value with respect to the underlying dividend yield.
- The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).
- (computing, colloquial) Something negligible or insignificant.
- (colloquial) A small child.
- (phonetics) In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
- the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet
verb
- (mathematics) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
- (economics) To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
- To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
- To press down.
- To make depressed, sad or bored.
- lower (prices or markets)
- lessen the activity or force of
- lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
- cause to drop or sink
- press down
adj
- capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers
- of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
- having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion)
- consistent with or based on or using reason
- (algebraic geometry) Of a point on an algebraic variety over a field: whose coordinates belong to the field in question (in contrast to those points of the variety which are only defined over the algebraic closure of the base field).
- Logically sound; not self-contradictory or otherwise absurd.
- (of a person or personal characteristics) Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
- (arithmetic) Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.
- (algebraic geometry) Of a variety: (informally) geometrically simple almost everywhere; (formally) birationally equivalent to projective space
- Capable of reasoning.
- (algebraic geometry) Of a function between varieties: acting as a morphism on an open subset of its domain.
- (algebra) Of an algebraic expression in indeterminates, or more generally a function: capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
noun
noun
- (statistics) Initialism of exponential moving average.
- (European Union, health) Initialism of European Medicines Agency (a European Union agency for the evaluation of medicinal products).
- (European Union, health) Initialism of European Medical Association (association representing Medical Doctors in Europe).
- (travel industry) Initialism of Excess Milage Allowance.
- Initialism of economically motivated adulteration.
adj
- (mathematics) Of a number: smooth, that factors completely into small prime numbers.
- (toxicology) Of a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.
- Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
- (geology) Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency.
- easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder
adj
- (mathematics) Of a number or value: diminishing to the point of reaching zero as a limit; infinitesimal.
- Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.
- Barely there; almost imperceptible.
- (botany) Of plant parts: shed after a period.
- (electromagnetism) Of an oscillating electric or magnetic field: not propagating as an electromagnetic wave but having its energy spatially concentrated in the vicinity of its source.
- Disappearing, vanishing.
- tending to vanish like vapor
noun
adj
- properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by ‘to’
- having a constant ratio
- (mathematics) At a constant ratio (to). Two magnitudes (numbers) are said to be proportional if the second varies in a direct relation arithmetically to the first. Symbol: ∝.
- Of a typeface, having characters with natural (non-uniform) width (in contrast to monospace typefaces).
- (chiefly US) In proportion (to), proportionate.
noun
- (mathematics, arithmetic, countable) A mathematical problem involving exponentiation.
- (mathematics, arithmetic) The process of calculating a power by multiplying together a number of equal factors, where the exponent specifies the number of factors to multiply.
- the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
noun
- (mathematics) A characteristic of an exponential function, represented by τ in the function:
- (physics) The time in which a physical system's response to a step-wise change in an external variable reaches approximately 63% of its final (asymptotic) value.
- For radioactivity: the decay constant.
- the ratio of the inductance of a circuit in henries to its resistance in ohms
- (electronics) the time required for the current or voltage in a circuit to rise or fall exponentially through approximately 63 per cent of its amplitude
noun
- An exponentiation symbol or operator ⟨＾⟩.
- (nonstandard) A circumflex ⟨ ˆ ⟩.
- (nonstandard) A háček ⟨ ˇ ⟩.
- (user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called a cursor, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
- A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point.
- a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text
noun
- (mathematics) the ratio of two homogeneous polynomials, such that the sum of the exponents in a term of the numerator is equal to the sum of the exponents in a term of the denominator.
- (mathematics) homogeneous polynomial
- (mathematics) a function f(x) which has the property that for any c, f(cx)=cf(x).
noun
- (mathematics) The portion of a Laurent series that has negative exponents.
- Any of the forms of a word which contain its stem(s) in the simplest form, or such a form that, when taken with all the other principal parts (showing various inflections), allows the entire paradigm to be derived.
- (mathematics) A polynomial approximation of a power series, made up of monomials whose indices lie in the Newton diagram of the power series and which occur with the same coefficients as in the original power series.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see principal, part.
noun
- (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
- The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
- Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
- The process of abbreviating.
- (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
- (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
- (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
- (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
- shortening something by omitting parts of it
- a shortened form of a word or phrase
noun
- (mathematics) An arbitrarily small quantity.
- (finance) The percentage change in an option value with respect to the underlying dividend yield.
- The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).
- (computing, colloquial) Something negligible or insignificant.
- (colloquial) A small child.
- (phonetics) In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
- the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet
noun
- (statistics) Initialism of exponential moving average.
- (European Union, health) Initialism of European Medicines Agency (a European Union agency for the evaluation of medicinal products).
- (European Union, health) Initialism of European Medical Association (association representing Medical Doctors in Europe).
- (travel industry) Initialism of Excess Milage Allowance.
- Initialism of economically motivated adulteration.
noun
adj
- properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by ‘to’
- having a constant ratio
- (mathematics) At a constant ratio (to). Two magnitudes (numbers) are said to be proportional if the second varies in a direct relation arithmetically to the first. Symbol: ∝.
- Of a typeface, having characters with natural (non-uniform) width (in contrast to monospace typefaces).
- (chiefly US) In proportion (to), proportionate.
verb
- (mathematics) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
- (economics) To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
- To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
- To press down.
- To make depressed, sad or bored.
- lower (prices or markets)
- lessen the activity or force of
- lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
- cause to drop or sink
- press down
adj
- (mathematics) Characterised by a rate of change that is proportional to the value of the varying quantity, or, equivalently, by a doubling or halving over successive fixed intervals of time or other parameter, described as exponential growth or exponential decay.
- Relating to an exponent.
- (loosely) Characterised by a very rapid rate of change, especially increase, or merely a very large amount or degree.
- (mathematics) Expressed in terms of an exponent (power of a base), the base often being 10 or e.
- of or involving exponents
noun
adj
- (mathematics, curve fitting) Increasing exponentially or as a higher polynomial power.
- (dermatology) Having unusually pronounced creases marking the skin.
- (mathematics, of groups) Displaying a generalization of sofic that applies to finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces.
- (mathematics, of a function of hyperreals) Both additive and homogeneous for hyperreal scalars.
- (mathematics, of a sequence) Converging very quickly to a limit so that the ratio of adjacent terms tends to zero.
adj
- (mathematics) Set to a lower bound.
- Of a pedal, pushed all the way down, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, figuratively) Amazed or greatly surprised.
- Struck down or leveled with the floor.
- Brought to the ground.
- Hung near the base of a wall.
- (informal, figuratively) Impressed.
- (informal, figuratively) Finished; done for.
- (informal, figuratively) Overpowered.
- Covered or furnished with a floor.
- Silenced by a conclusive answer or retort.
- provided with a floor
verb
adj
noun
adj
- (mathematics) Reduced to a lower degree or form.
- Suffering from clinical depression.
- Unhappy; despondent.
- Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
- lower than previously
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
verb
adj
verb
- (transitive) To conclude.
- (intransitive) To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- (intransitive) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- (transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
- (intransitive) To issue or result.
- (transitive) To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To kill someone or something.
- (transitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- (transitive) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
adj
- capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers
- of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
- having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion)
- consistent with or based on or using reason
- (algebraic geometry) Of a point on an algebraic variety over a field: whose coordinates belong to the field in question (in contrast to those points of the variety which are only defined over the algebraic closure of the base field).
- Logically sound; not self-contradictory or otherwise absurd.
- (of a person or personal characteristics) Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
- (arithmetic) Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.
- (algebraic geometry) Of a variety: (informally) geometrically simple almost everywhere; (formally) birationally equivalent to projective space
- Capable of reasoning.
- (algebraic geometry) Of a function between varieties: acting as a morphism on an open subset of its domain.
- (algebra) Of an algebraic expression in indeterminates, or more generally a function: capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
noun
adj
- (mathematics) Of a number: smooth, that factors completely into small prime numbers.
- (toxicology) Of a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.
- Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
- (geology) Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency.
- easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder
adj
- (mathematics) Of a number or value: diminishing to the point of reaching zero as a limit; infinitesimal.
- Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.
- Barely there; almost imperceptible.
- (botany) Of plant parts: shed after a period.
- (electromagnetism) Of an oscillating electric or magnetic field: not propagating as an electromagnetic wave but having its energy spatially concentrated in the vicinity of its source.
- Disappearing, vanishing.
- tending to vanish like vapor