logarithmic growth
31логарифмическая фаза роста — logarithmic phase [of growth] логарифмическая фаза роста. Фаза роста бактериальной культуры, при которой удвоение количества клеток происходит постоянно за определенные промежутки времени; на этом этапе оболочка клеток истончена (“незрелые”… …
32Rate of return — In finance, rate of return (ROR), also known as return on investment (ROI), rate of profit or sometimes just return, is the ratio of money gained or lost (whether realized or unrealized) on an investment relative to the amount of money invested.… …
33Golden spiral — In geometry, a golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral whose growth factor b is related to phi;, the golden ratio. [ [http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/GoldenSpiral/ Golden Spiral] by Yu Sung Chang, The Wolfram Demonstrations Project.] Specifically …
34Logarithm — The graph of the logarithm to base 2 crosses the x axis (horizontal axis) at 1 and passes through the points with coordinates (2, 1), (4, 2), and (8, 3) …
35global warming — an increase in the earth s average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect. [1975 80] * * * Potential increase in global average surface temperatures resulting from… …
36Moore's law — Plot of CPU transistor counts against dates of introduction. Note the logarithmic vertical scale; the line corresponds to exponential growth with transistor count doubling every two years …
37river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… …
38exponential function — Math. 1. the function y = ex. 2. any function of the form y = bax, where a and b are positive constants. 3. any function in which a variable appears as an exponent and may also appear as a base, as y = x2x. [1890 95] * * * In mathematics, a… …
39solids, mechanics of — ▪ physics Introduction science concerned with the stressing (stress), deformation (deformation and flow), and failure of solid materials and structures. What, then, is a solid? Any material, fluid or solid, can support normal forces.… …
40Proportionality (mathematics) — This article is about proportionality, the mathematical relation. For other uses of the term, see Proportionality (disambiguation). y is directly proportional to x. In mathematics, two variable quantities are proportional… …
