superlinear

English

Etymology

super- +‎ linear

Adjective

superlinear (comparative more superlinear, superlative most superlinear)

1. Above a line.
2. (especially mathematics) Describing a function (or rate of growth, etc) that eventually grows faster than any linear one.
   • 2006, Nazim H. Madhavji, Juan Fernandez-Ramil, Dewayne Perry, Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 187:

     […] 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 […]

Translations

describing a function that eventually grows faster than any linear one

• Norwegian: superlineær (no)