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noun

Progression n.

The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.

Course; passage; lapse or process of time. "I hope, in a short progression, you will be wholly immerged in the delices and joys of religion."

(Math.) Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic.

(Mus.) A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key.

Arithmetical progression, a progression in which the terms increase or decrease by equal differences.

Geometrical progression, a progression in which the terms increase or decrease by equal ratios.

Harmonic progression, a progression in which the terms are the reciprocals of quantities in arithmetical progression.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Progression" Quotes from Famous Books

... good; and had the arrangement of the universe been entrusted to us, benevolent and equitable people of an enlightened age, there would doubtless have been invented some system of evolution and progression differing from the one which includes such machinery as hurricanes and pestilences, carnage and misery, superstition and license, Renaissance and Eighteenth Century. But unfortunately Nature was organized ...

— Euphorion - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the - Renaissance - Vol. I • Vernon Lee

... not ashamed," sweetly replied Mirande. "I should, on the contrary, be ashamed of any other gesture, or method of progression. If one wishes to please God, it is thus that one should behave. The holy Brother Sulpice taught me to conduct myself thus, in order to resemble the beasts, who are nearer to God than is Man, in that they have not sinned. ...

— The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas - 1920 • Anatole France

... between an old-fashioned Italian opera and a modern German tone-drama. In the one case the effects are made through senseless repetition and through tours de force of the voice; in the other there is a steady progression in dramatic intensity, link joining link without ...

— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

... to read the great productions of the human mind as they were written. We have this feeling even about scientific treatises; though we know that the sciences are always in a state of progression, and that the alterations made by a modern editor in an old book on any branch of natural or political philosophy are likely to be improvements. Some errors have been detected by writers of this generation in the speculations of Adam Smith. A short cut has been ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... sole charge of an automobile, went gaily scuttering over the roads of France. I use the word advisedly. If you had heard the awful thing as it passed by you would agree that it is the only word adequate to express its hideous mode of progression. It was a two-seated, scratched, battered, ramshackle tin concern of hoary antiquity, belonging to the childhood of the race. Not only horses, but other automobiles shied at it. It was a vehicle of derision. ...

— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke

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