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🔢 To raise to power 📈 To grow rapidly
to exponentiate

to exponentiate

8.9
Increase very quickly, growing faster and faster
  • verb
  • /ɪkˈspoʊnənˌteɪt/
translation icon : exponenciar
  • The population began to exponentiate as new resources became available, leading to rapid urban development.

Examples

  • It's going to use a a fancy trick which is exponentiating a random variable.

  • OK, so then you would say if it exponentiates by many, many, many orders of magnitude, why doesn't that?

  • So the one thing Miss Mclogan said you could do was look to transfer to exponential form or look to exponentiate both sides to get rid of the logs.

  • Because if you just go do and encryption followed by decryption, you are doubly exponentiating, right?

  • Martin Mayer, in a study of the collapse of the savings and loan industry, describes Washington's bailout policies as having "exponentiated" the ultimate cost to the taxpayer (Thomas 1991).

    Academic text (1992)

  • As interest rates fall, investment in technology can quickly exponentiate, leading to significant economic growth.

  • The viral video's views started to exponentiate after it was shared on social media platforms.

Synonyms

to explode
vsto exponentiate
136 4.3

To increase very quickly in number or size

grows by smooth compounding over time rather than sudden jumps
to multiply
vsto exponentiate
75 3.2

To increase in number quickly by making more of something

grows by repeated compounding in an exponential pattern
to zoom
vsto exponentiate
54 3.7

To rise very quickly in amount or value

climbs via exponential compounding rather than sudden short-term jumps
to skyrocket
vsto exponentiate
52 4.1

To rise very quickly to a high level

increases through ongoing exponential compounding rather than a sudden spike
to amplify
vsto exponentiate
44 4.1

To make something larger, stronger, or more important

increases by compounding at a fast exponential rate rather than general enhancement
to proliferate
vsto exponentiate
23 9.5

Increase quickly in number or make something increase quickly

grows by multiplying at an accelerating exponential rate
to rocket up
vsto exponentiate
2 4.4

Increase very quickly to a much higher level

rises by steady exponential multiplication rather than a single sharp rise

Antonyms

to diminish
201 3.7

To become less in size, importance, or value

decrease
84 2.2

A drop in amount or number

How Fast

to exponentiate
8.9
to skyrocket
52 4.1
to surge
41 3.7
to rise
904 1.0
to increase
∞ 1.0
to grow
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

exponentiate infinitive
exponentiated past
exponentiated past participle
exponentiating present participle
exponentiates third person singular

Morphology

exponentiate = exponent (semi-transparent) = exponent + iate

The figurative sense 'to increase rapidly' is a metaphorical extension of the mathematical meaning and may not be fully obvious to learners who only know the basic noun.

Etymology

Exponentiate comes from exponent, which carries the idea of putting numbers out as powers that multiply again and again, just like the word multiply. So to exponentiate something in everyday speech is to make it grow very fast, as when followers or problems multiply quickly.