geometric growth
Doubling, then redoubling
Geometric growth is increase by a constant ratio rather than a constant amount—each value multiplied by the same factor to produce the next.
A population doubling every generation grows geometrically.
The term is interchangeable with exponential growth, though geometric technically applies to discrete intervals while exponential describes continuous change.
The geometric growth of social media users caught advertisers off guard.
- exponentialIncreasing by constant ratio
- doublingMultiplying by two
- compoundCombined into one
- compound interestReturns on reinvested earnings
- multiplicationProduct-finding operation
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- increasesincrease, rise, gain, boost, hike
- MalthusianismMalthusianism, moral restraint, misery, vice, poor laws
- math termsnumbers, plus or minus, square, operand, division
geometric growthstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
stasis · equilibrium · steady state · flatline · zero growth
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