Superlinear

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Above a line.
  2. 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

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"[…] 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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