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arithmetic sequence

Noun B2 – Upper-Intermediate

A list of numbers in which the difference between each term and the next stays constant.

"In the arithmetic sequence 3, 7, 11, 15, each term is four more than the one before it."

The nth term of an arithmetic sequence can be found directly with a formula, without listing every term before it.