1. (mathematics) a progression in which each term is multiplied by a constant in order to obtain the next term; - Example: "1-4-16-64-256- is the start of a geometric progression"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
geometric progression
n 1: (mathematics) a progression in which each term is
multiplied by a constant in order to obtain the next term;
"1-4-16-64-256- is the start of a geometric progression"