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Meanings of geometrical progression in English

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Usage of geometrical progression in English
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The order of generation proceeds by something like a geometrical progression.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Thus aided and spurred, its extension has approached the rate of geometrical progression.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
3
His wealth increased not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression.
Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery
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Every kind of animal and plant tends to increase in numbers in a geometrical progression.
On the Genesis of Species
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We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression.
The Stark Munro Letters / Being series of twelve letters written...
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As a rule, it proceeds in regular geometrical progression.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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Few realize the rapidity at which a loan increases, accelerating in geometrical progression as time passes.
Usury / A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
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That's geometrical progression-youknow how that piles up.
Fantastic Fables
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In the almost geometrical progression of popular movement, a few months were still necessary to effect this.
History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
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They beheld the geometrical progression of life catching up the arithmetical progression of food with fearful strides.
Essays in Rebellion
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So far, says he, from increasing in geometrical progression, they do not even keep up their numbers.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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Or has he a definition of his own for geometrical progression, as well as for inverse proportion?
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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If ten, twenty men left and those rumours multiplied by geometrical progression, sheer intimidation would work a vast good.
Gladiator
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A single cube on geometrical progression would make the solid globe in (I suppose) under a century.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
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Punishment increased by geometrical progression.
Just Patty
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The country does not appreciate the tremendous power of the committees, as legislative business constantly increases with almost geometrical progression.
My Memories of Eighty Years
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