EXPONEN'TIAL, adjectiveexponential curves are such as partake both of the nature of algebraic and transcendental ones. They partake of the former, because they consist of a finite number of terms, though these terms themselves are indeterminate; and they are in some measure transcendental, because they cannot be algebraically constructed.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.