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单词 geometric progression
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Definition of geometric progression in English:

geometric progression

noun
  • A progression of numbers with a constant ratio between each number and the one before (e.g. 1, 3, 9, 27, 81).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One knows what happens otherwise: a geometric progression of crime, which neither the courts and nor the prisons are able to cope with.
    • Another way of obtaining this result is to differentiate both sides of the formula for the sum of a geometric progression.
    • Any radius from the origin meets the spiral at distances which are in geometric progression.
    • The proportion of total expenditure that is devoted to food tends to decrease exactly in arithmetic progression as total expenditure increases in geometric progression.
    • One of the worlds growing technological innovation is telecommunications, with its number of punters growing at a geometric progression.
 
 

Definition of geometric progression in US English:

geometric progression

nounˌdʒiəˈmɛtrɪk prəˈɡrɛʃən
  • A progression of numbers with a constant ratio between each number and the one before (e.g., each subsequent number is increased by a factor of 3 in the progression 1, 3, 9, 27, 81).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The proportion of total expenditure that is devoted to food tends to decrease exactly in arithmetic progression as total expenditure increases in geometric progression.
    • Any radius from the origin meets the spiral at distances which are in geometric progression.
    • One knows what happens otherwise: a geometric progression of crime, which neither the courts and nor the prisons are able to cope with.
    • Another way of obtaining this result is to differentiate both sides of the formula for the sum of a geometric progression.
    • One of the worlds growing technological innovation is telecommunications, with its number of punters growing at a geometric progression.
 
 
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