rate of change
noun phrase
: a value that results from dividing the change in a function of a variable by the change in the variable
velocity is the rate of change in distance with respect to time
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If anything, the rate of change today is even faster than that.
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Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
And some skeptics have predicted that as big AI companies run out of high-quality, publicly available data to train their models on, after having already gobbled up much of the internet, the rate of change in the industry may slow.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
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In an economically uncertain world, where workers are becoming more mobile and the rate of change is rapid because of technology, mobile offices, building trailers and portable classrooms are increasingly becoming indispensable.
—Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2025
Those include a turn in the three-month rate of change and for the S&P 500 to climb above short-term resistance levels between 5,500 and 5,700.
—Lisa Kailai Han,pia Singh, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
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Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
And some skeptics have predicted that as big AI companies run out of high-quality, publicly available data to train their models on, after having already gobbled up much of the internet, the rate of change in the industry may slow.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
Content oversight and quality assurance provided by Studio 1847
In an economically uncertain world, where workers are becoming more mobile and the rate of change is rapid because of technology, mobile offices, building trailers and portable classrooms are increasingly becoming indispensable.
—Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2025
Those include a turn in the three-month rate of change and for the S&P 500 to climb above short-term resistance levels between 5,500 and 5,700.
—Lisa Kailai Han,pia Singh, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
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“Rate of change.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rate%20of%20change. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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