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PATTERNED ADVANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
