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progression en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /pɹəˈɡɹɛʃən/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /pɹəˈɡɹɛʃn̩/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English progressioun, from Old French progression and its etymon Latin prōgressiō. By surface analysis, progress + -ion.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of moving from one thing to another.
    • Make a natural progression from player to coach
  2. (countable, uncountable) The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
    • The lowest risk for kidney disease progression seemed to be at levels of current systolic blood pressure of 110 to 129 mm Hg. 2003, T.H. Jafar et al., Annals of Internal Medicine 139, pages 244–252:
  3. (countable, uncountable) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
  4. (countable, uncountable) Development, increase, evolution.
  5. (countable) A chord progression.
  6. (countable, uncountable) The process of making an exercise more strenuous by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.

Forms

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Antonyms

regress · retrogression

Deriveds

doo-wop progression · harmonic progression · omnibus progression · pathoprogression · nonprogression · progressionary · circle progression · cross-progression · meta-progression · postprogression · atheroprogression · progressionist · arithmetical progression · semantic progression · pseudoprogression · progressional · nilprogression · oligoprogression · neuroprogression · progressionism · chord progression · Axis progression · record progression · arithmetic progression · proregression · geometrical progression · hyperprogression · backdoor progression · geometric progression · '50s progression · time to progression

Relateds

progress

Synonyms

sequence · swing · swing

Translations (55)

de Fortschreiten (moving from one thing to another) · fr progression (moving from one thing to another) · de Zunahme (evolution) · de Fortschritt (moving from one thing to another) · de Folge (mathematical sequence) · pt progressão (evolution) · de Fortschreitung (mathematical sequence) · es progresión (evolution) · de Vorwärtsbewegung (moving from one thing to another) · de Steigerung (evolution) · it progressione (evolution) · nl voortgang (moving from one thing to another) · ru прогре́ссия (mathematical sequence) · de Progression (mathematical sequence) · it progressione (mathematical sequence) · pt progressão (mathematical sequence) · el πρόοδος (moving from one thing to another) · cmn 数列 (mathematical sequence) · tr ilerleme (evolution) · pl postęp (mathematical sequence) · sv framsteg (evolution) · ca progressió (moving from one thing to another) · gd gluasad (moving from one thing to another) · pl progresja (moving from one thing to another) · de Fortschreibung (mathematical sequence) · bg напредване (moving from one thing to another) · pl ciąg (mathematical sequence) · de Entwicklung (evolution) · ca progressió (mathematical sequence) · fr progression (evolution) · de Reihe (mathematical sequence) · ga gluaiseacht (moving from one thing to another) · bg развитие (evolution) · fi lukujono (mathematical sequence) · sq mbrothësi (moving from one thing to another) · ms janjang (mathematical sequence) · el προχώρηση (moving from one thing to another) · bg прогресия (mathematical sequence) · lv progresija (mathematical sequence) · de Verlauf (moving from one thing to another) · el πρόοδος (mathematical sequence) · ru продвижение (moving from one thing to another) · fi edistyminen (moving from one thing to another) · es progresión (moving from one thing to another) · cs posloupnost (mathematical sequence) · es progresión (mathematical sequence) · tr ilerleme (moving from one thing to another) · de Sequenz (mathematical sequence) · ru развитие (evolution) · de Vorankommen (evolution) · ar مُتَتَالِيَة (mathematical sequence) · ga seicheamh (mathematical sequence) · fi eteneminen (moving from one thing to another) · de Weiterentwicklung (evolution) · tl panisulong (mathematical sequence)