: a progression (such as 3, 5, 7, 9) in which the difference between any term and its predecessor is constant
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Recent Examples on the WebThis kind of sequence is called an arithmetic progression.Quanta Magazine, 6 Feb. 2019 In mathematics, this is called an arithmetic progression—a sequence in which the numbers increase by the same amount at each step. Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2018