Superlinear
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Above a line.
- 2 Describing a function (or rate of growth, etc) that eventually grows faster than any linear one. especially
"[…] in their study of Mono (a F/OSS implementation of Microsoft's .NET services, libraries and interfaces), their measurements indicate superlinear growth rate in the code size and the number of code updates that are committed […]"
Example
More examples"[…] in their study of Mono (a F/OSS implementation of Microsoft's .NET services, libraries and interfaces), their measurements indicate superlinear growth rate in the code size and the number of code updates that are committed […]"
Etymology
From super- + linear.
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