Ouch, not a good look for a technical article. From the other responses, it sounds like "none of the above". It's more like a "polynomial curve" that is only s

Ouch, not a good look for a technical article. From the other responses, it sounds like "none of the above". It's more like a "polynomial curve" that is only sometimes quadratic. Is "polynomial curve" a thing? "Power curve" / "power function"?