progression
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French progression.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /pɹəˈɡɹɛʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editprogression (countable and uncountable, plural progressions)
- The act of moving from one thing to another.
- Make a natural progression from player to coach
- The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
- 2003, T.H. Jafar et al., Annals of Internal Medicine 139, pages 244–252:
- The lowest risk for kidney disease progression seemed to be at levels of current systolic blood pressure of 110 to 129 mm Hg.
- (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
- Development, increase, evolution.
- (music, countable) A chord progression.
- (exercise) The process of making an exercise more strenuous by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
Synonyms
edit- (mathematics): sequence
Antonyms
editDerived terms
edit- '50s progression
- arithmetical progression
- arithmetic progression
- atheroprogression
- Axis progression
- backdoor progression
- chord progression
- circle progression
- cross-progression
- doo-wop progression
- geometrical progression
- geometric progression
- harmonic progression
- nilprogression
- nonprogression
- pathoprogression
- progressional
- progressionist
- proregression
- pseudoprogression
- record progression
- time to progression
Related terms
editTranslations
editmoving from one thing to another
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mathematical sequence
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evolution
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Finnish
editNoun
editprogression
French
editEtymology
editFrom Latin progressionem (accusative of progressio).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ ~ /pʁɔ.ɡʁe.sjɔ̃/
Audio (Switzerland): (file)
Noun
editprogression f (plural progressions)
Further reading
edit- “progression”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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