"exponential decay" meaning in All languages combined

See exponential decay on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: exponential decays [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} exponential decay (countable and uncountable, plural exponential decays)
  1. A decrease where the rate of decrease is proportional to the amount remaining. Wikipedia link: exponential decay Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Functions

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for exponential decay meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "exponential decays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "exponential decay (countable and uncountable, plural exponential decays)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Functions",
          "orig": "en:Functions",
          "parents": [
            "Algebra",
            "Calculus",
            "Geometry",
            "Mathematical analysis",
            "Mathematics",
            "Formal sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, E. Biørn, Taxation, Technology, and the User Cost of Capital, page 239",
          "text": "The service value of the capital stock, i.e. the product of its price and quantity component, is decomposed into a depreciation component and an interest component, similar to the decomposition which holds under exponential decay.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A decrease where the rate of decrease is proportional to the amount remaining."
      ],
      "id": "en-exponential_decay-en-noun-hVrj-t3K",
      "links": [
        [
          "decrease",
          "decrease"
        ],
        [
          "rate",
          "rate"
        ],
        [
          "proportional",
          "proportional"
        ],
        [
          "remain",
          "remain"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "exponential decay"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "exponential decay"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "exponential decays",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "exponential decay (countable and uncountable, plural exponential decays)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Functions"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, E. Biørn, Taxation, Technology, and the User Cost of Capital, page 239",
          "text": "The service value of the capital stock, i.e. the product of its price and quantity component, is decomposed into a depreciation component and an interest component, similar to the decomposition which holds under exponential decay.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A decrease where the rate of decrease is proportional to the amount remaining."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "decrease",
          "decrease"
        ],
        [
          "rate",
          "rate"
        ],
        [
          "proportional",
          "proportional"
        ],
        [
          "remain",
          "remain"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "exponential decay"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "exponential decay"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.