geometric ratio

noun

, Mathematics.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of geometric ratio¹

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.

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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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Once well at home, how will it radiate outwards, irrepressible, into all that we touch and handle, speak and work; kindling ever new light, by incalculable contagion, spreading in geometric ratio, far and wide,—doing good only, wheresoever it spreads, and not evil.

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