adverb
- in a manner involving or relating to a quadratic equation or function
Usage: mathematics
Examples
- The population grew quadratically over the past decade.
- Processing time increases quadratically with the size of the input data.
- The function behaves quadratically near the origin.
- Energy consumption rises quadratically as speed doubles.
- The algorithm's complexity scales quadratically with the number of elements.
- The parabola opens upward, curving quadratically from its vertex.