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. 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 See All Example Sentences for rate of change

Word History

First Known Use

1876, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of rate of change was in 1876

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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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