superlinear
adjEtymology From super- + linear.
1
Above a line.
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Mathematics, Sciences Especially Describing a function (or rate of growth, etc) that eventually grows faster than any linear one.
- […] 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 […]2006, Nazim H. Madhavji, Juan Fernandez-Ramil, Dewayne Perry, Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 187:
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- superlinearly