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harmonic progression
(har|mon¦ic pro|gres¦sion)
noun
1
Music
a series of chord changes forming the underlying harmony of a piece of music.
2
Mathematics
a sequence of quantities whose reciprocals are in arithmetical progression (e.g. 1, 1/ 3, 1/ 5, 1/ 7, etc.).
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