PATTERNED ADVANCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A series with a definite pattern of advance

Synonyms:

patterned advance; progression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("patterned advance" is a kind of...):

series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "patterned advance"):

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

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

harmonic progression ((mathematics) a progression of terms whose reciprocals form an arithmetic progression)