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EGF

EGF is the initialism of epidermal growth factor.

EGF is the initialism of exponential generating function.

Meaning of exponential generating function

Noun

exponential generating function (plural exponential generating functions)

  1. A formal power series with one indeterminate, whose coefficients are fractions with factorial denominators (of index corresponding to the power of the indeterminate) and numerators which represent a sequence of numbers that is to be studied.
    • Exponential generating functions are generally more convenient than ordinary generating functions for combinatorial enumeration problems that involve labelled objects.

Forms of EGF

pluralEGFs

Questions about EGF

What is EGF the initialism of?
EGF is the initialism of epidermal growth factor.

Words near EGF in the dictionary

  1. egesting
  2. egestion
  3. egestions
  4. egestive
  5. egests
  6. EGF
  7. EGFR
  8. eGFRs
  9. EGFs
  10. egg
  11. egg and dart

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Adapted from Wiktionary: EGF (page history and authors); exponential generating function (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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