Technically correct (the best kind of correct). But dictionaries have started to recognize a definition meaning "rapid rate of increase".

Yes, dictionaries are wrong sometimes.

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jfengel 2 years ago | parent | prev [-]

By their own goals, they're only "wrong" if people don't actually talk that way. That is their only measure of truth.

But yeah, the people who feel ownership of a word often get cranky about semantic drift.

	▲	NotYourLawyer 2 years ago \| parent [-]
		I’m somewhere in between a prescriptivist and a descriptivist. But this definition of exponential is just wrong.