linear growth
Steady additive progression
Linear growth is increase at a constant rate over time—the same amount added in each period.
A child who grows two inches every year exhibits linear growth.
The term often appears in contrast to exponential growth, where the rate itself accelerates: The company showed linear growth of about 5% annually, not the exponential trajectory investors hoped for.
- steadyFixed, not fluctuating
- slow and steadyGradual but consistent
- constantFixed, unvarying quantity
- arithmeticMathematics of basic operations
- progressionSequential forward movement
incremental · one step at a time · baby steps · slope · straight · uniform · predictable · gradual · fixed rate · rate · rise · uphill climb · climb · accumulation · step-by-step · additive · proportion · baseline
- growthincrease, increasing, expansion, expand, expanding
- math termsnumbers, plus or minus, square, operand, division
- growth assessmentheight, weight chart, height measurement, percentile, percentiles
- Growth Metricspercent change, year over year, retention rate, churn rate, attrition rate
- asymptoticsorder of magnitude, decay rate, exponential decay, blowup, infinity
- life stagesbaby, teenager, adult, childhood, adolescence
linear growthstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
plateau · zero growth · equilibrium · steady state · stasis
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