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  1. What is a better word for "exponentially"?

    I often hear news reports of rapidly increasing problems use the word "exponentially" for emphasis. For example, tonight's BBC America World News included a segment on the growing Syrian refugee p...

  2. terminology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Jul 17, 2015 · Firstly, at What is a better word for exponentially? there is an answer showing that the word is often used in a sense less precise than the mathematical one (but echoing it). Then, by …

  3. With "amount" will you use singular or plural?

    Apr 23, 2012 · See what happens with ...large amount of apples and the fact that X will exponentially grow If you said 'they will grow', you'd presumably be referring to the individual apples, but instead …

  4. idiom requests - Alternatives to "exponentially bigger" - English ...

    May 16, 2016 · One idiom that grinds my gears is "exponentially bigger" outside of an actual (exponential) trend, e.g. in pairwise comparisons like "A is exponentially bigger than B". What is a …

  5. phrases - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    4 I will continue to look for a single word to describe "when a problem's understood complexity grows exponentially as you work on it," but I found some phrases that might fit the bill. Hofstadter's Law is …

  6. How do you explain cubic growth of a function

    Aug 17, 2015 · When reading scientific papers I have seen people explain the growth of a variable linearly, exponentially. However how would one say for a variable which grows in quadratic fashion, …

  7. grammar - "When" or "Where" when refering to scenario? - English ...

    Sep 1, 2016 · We can use both according to the preferred context. There are three main relative adverbs namely where, when and why. While ' when' refers to time, 'where' refers to place, but the curious …

  8. "With who" vs. "with whom" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Is this correct? The person with whom I'm doing the project should be here soon. If it is, is with always a dative preposition (like mit in German)?

  9. Single word for something that becomes progressively harder to …

    Dec 30, 2016 · Although I don't know the answer, your question evokes another question - "What is a job that gets progressively easier called" ? One possible phrase that comes to my mind (although it …

  10. etymology - "That which is measured, improves" - English Language ...

    That which is measured and reported improves exponentially." - Karl Pearson "When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of …