Why are subdivisions called "ratcheting" and when the hell did that happen?

But I thought Tangerine Dream mentioned it first?
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I was thinking about it a bit more and I think that the ‘ratcheting’ sequencing term started to get associated on forums with trap music and etc. because people would come onto places like Muffwiggler and ask how to get these types of complex subdivided rhythms from a modular, and the typical answer would be ratcheting sequences/sequencers/clocks etc, before all the fancy software brain sequencers for eurorack started coming out

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