Meanings of arithmetical progression in English

His play had become wilder and wilder at each hole in arithmetical progression.

No system which makes mere arithmetical progression a substitute for intrinsic qualities can long prove satisfactory.

They beheld the geometrical progression of life catching up the arithmetical progression of food with fearful strides.

The trouble is that while the distance covered increases in arithmetical progression, the deterioration of the machine is in geometrical.

Now, in the case of the multiplying square we must take these numbers in geometrical instead of arithmetical progression, thus-

Certainly, the terror of a deserted house swells in geometrical rather than arithmetical progression as houses multiply to form a city of stark desolation.

If the deterioration of the race could be measured, it might even be found to grow in a series of figures representing arithmetical progression.

He did not sleep the whole night, and his fury, growing in a sort of vast, arithmetical progression, reached its highest limits in the morning.

Nine, multiplied by each of the ordinary numbers, produces an arithmetical progression, each member whereof, composed of two figures, presents a remarkable fact; for example:

We must always play from left to right, and numbers in decreasing arithmetical progression (such as 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4) are not admissible.

Behold once more the confirming Series, 2, 4, 6: is not this an Arithmetical Progression?

In them I read unthinkable calculations, formulas of interwoven universes, arithmetical progressions of armies of stars, pandects of the motions of the suns.