geometric ratio

American  

noun

Mathematics.

1. the ratio of consecutive terms in a geometric progression.

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Etymology

Origin of geometric ratio

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

If you’re planning on stuffing your face with pie on Saturday in honor of the geometric ratio whose digits march on to infinity, you’ll probably take two things for granted.

From Slate

The studies preparatory to Edison's first mechanism covered a long period of years; but, gaining momentum, his inventive skill increased in geometric ratio, until to-day the famous electrician holds nearly a thousand patents; but, as nothing succeeds like success, so nothing is so ruinous as failure.

From Project Gutenberg

Surplus is accumulating in a geometric ratio—surplus piling on surplus.

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This power has already become the main agency in the growth of the church, and its efficiency is to grow in geometric ratio as the years increase.

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The reasoning of most of these Jeremiahs is something on this wise: That, inasmuch as the deaths from cancer have apparently nearly trebled in proportion to the population within the last thirty years, it only needs a piece of paper and a pencil to be able to figure out with absolute certainty that in a certain number of decades, at this geometric ratio, there will be more deaths from cancer than there are human beings living.

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