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harmonic progression
har·mon·ic pro·gres·sion (plural har·mon·ic pro·gres·sions)


noun 
Definition:
 
progression of reciprocal numbers: a sequence of numbers whose reciprocals form an arithmetic progression, e.g. 1/2, 1/5, 1/8, 1/11
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