Definitions for progression

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progression pro·gres·sion

Spelling: [pruh-gresh-uh n]

IPA: /prəˈgrɛʃ ən/

Progression is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 657 anagrams from letters in progression (eginooprrss).

Definitions for progression

noun

1. the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
2. a passing successively from one member of a series to the next; succession; sequence.
3. Mathematics. a succession of quantities in which there is a constant relation between each member and the one succeeding it. Compare arithmetic progression, geometric progression, harmonic progression.
4. Music. the manner in which chords or melodic tones follow one another; a succession of chords or tones.
5. Astrology. any of a variety of methods of comparing the natal chart to subsequent planetary positions in order to establish an optimum time to accomplish things or to establish the probable time an event occurred or will occur.

Origin of progression

1400-50; late Middle English Latin prōgressiōn- (stem of prōgressiō). See progress, -ion

Examples for progression

It was the most comfortable method of progression that I had ever known.

progression is the increase of the proportion of the effort to the result.

There is a progression by antagonism of two opposite aspects of philosophy.

And 10 months of stability is but a moment of time for HIV, for which progression is measured in years.

Its mode of progression was in the highest degree unsightly.

The Daily Beast: Von Trier follows a girl named Joe from her progression through adolescence into adulthood.

She was left with an aching desire to turn back time and stop the progression of that clock.

There has to be a progression in what Francis is willing to do in order to move forward, and that was the natural progression.

[I] had to create the progression of where he was emotionally.

But how happen there to be such evidences of progression as exist?