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Exponentially vs Drastically - What's the difference?

exponentially | drastically |

As adverbs the difference between exponentially and drastically

is that exponentially is in an exponential manner while drastically is to a drastic degree.

exponentially

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (mathematics, sciences) In an exponential manner.
  • * 1992 , Clark Glymour, Thinking Things Through: An Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievements , MIT Press (1997), ISBN 978-0-262-57119-7, page 333:
    • But every known algorithm for this problem requires a number of steps that increases exponentially as n increases.
  • * 2000 , Shuji Nakamura et al., The Blue Laser Diode: The Complete Story , Second Revised and Enlarged Edition, Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-66505-2, page 69:
    • Therefore, if absorption causes an attenuation of the oscillation amplitude, the temperature must decrease exponentially with increasing thickness.
  • * 2008 , Henri Benisty et al., Photonic Crystals: Towards Nanoscale Photonic Devices , Second Edition, Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-78346-6, page 216:
    • It can be readily derived from Eqs. 6.26 and 6.32 that the field generated by these incident evanescent waves inside the slab do (SIC) not decay away exponentially' from the upper interface, but increases '''exponentially as ''y decreases.
  • (proscribed) rapidly, greatly
  • * 2007 , Michael Glenn Maness, Would You Lie to Save a Life: Love Will Find a Way Home , page 357:
    • The more serious a Christian is about God's kingdom, the more exponentially complicating that venture is
  • * 2008 , Beth Kery, Take a Stranger No More , page 27:
    • He'd felt like Kathryn's soul was in her eyes as she'd regarded him for those precious few seconds... and her spirit was even more exponentially beautiful than

    drastically

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • To a drastic degree.
    • This recession has been drastically different.
    drastically reduced prices
  • In a drastic manner.
    • Lisa always wore shorts and a T-shirt, which clashed drastically with her brother's thick winter coat.
  • * 1920 , America , volume 22, page 255:
    • It explains why a Democratic Congress foisted Prohibition on the country and a Republican Congress drastically legislated to enforce it, when ordinarily the two parties are only too anxious for any political stick to beat each other with.
  • * 1928 , The Atlantic Monthly , volume 141, page 558:
    • Seldom have democratic principles been so drastically enacted into law.
  • * 1933 , The China Critic , volume 6, page 428:
    • A uniform marriage and divorce law must be drastically enacted by the Central Government and rigidly administrated by the higher courts.