geometric progression

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   (mathematics) a progression in which each term is multiplied by a constant in order to obtain the next term

   “1-4-16-64-256- is the start of a geometric progression”

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Questions about geometric progression

What does geometric progression mean?

geometric progression means "(mathematics) a progression in which each term is multiplied by a constant in order to obtain the next term".

Is geometric progression a common word?

geometric progression is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.