patterned advance

1. 1.

   a series with a definite pattern of advance

   Synonymsprogression

   Broaderseries

   Narrowerarithmetic progressiongeometric progressionharmonic progression

Questions about patterned advance

What does patterned advance mean?

patterned advance means "a series with a definite pattern of advance".

What is another word for patterned advance?

Close synonyms include progression. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is patterned advance a common word?

patterned advance 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.