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geometrical progression

noun as in harmonic progression

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And he said Wagner's casualties were "growing in geometrical progression every day" because of the lack of ammunition.

From BBC

Yevgeny Prigozhin said Wagner's casualties were "growing in geometrical progression every day", and pinned his decision to withdraw from Bakhmut squarely on the defence ministry.

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As Jefferson noted in a 1785 letter to Madison, “Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.”

From Salon

According to this law if the excess of temperature of the body above its surroundings is observed at equal intervals of time, the observed values will form a geometrical progression with a common ratio.

The increase of pressure per degree C. at the boiling point was about 1⁄28th of 760 mm. or 27.2 mm., but increased in geometrical progression with rise of temperature.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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