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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

... he said, "of many friendships with men whose names you would scarcely know, but who directed the intellectual tendencies of the younger generation of Parisians. People call us decadents—I suppose, because we prefer intellectual progression to physical activity. I am afraid, dear friend, that you would ...

— A Maker of History • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... and stable like the earth. But let a man set himself to mark out the boundary with cords and pegs, and were he never so nimble and never so exact, what with the multiplicity of the leaves and the progression of the shadow as it flees before the travelling sun, long ere he has made the circuit the whole figure will have changed. Life may be compared, not to a single tree, but to a great and complicated forest; ...

— Lay Morals • Robert Louis Stevenson

... 27th, the column of mercury rose in the barometrical tube. The oscillation was neither sudden nor considerable—a few lines only—but the progression seemed likely to continue. The tempest was evidently going to enter its decreasing period, and, if the sea did remain excessively rough, they could tell that the wind was going down, veering ...

— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne

... standing-ground of party, was to be expected. Caesar himself desired doubtless on the whole the same issue which Gaius Gracchus had contemplated; but the designs of the Caesarians were no longer those of the Gracchans. The Roman popular party had been driven onward in gradual progression from reform to revolution, from revolution to anarchy, from anarchy to a war against property; they celebrated among themselve the memory of the reign of terror and now adorned the tomb of Catilina, ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... one of those stories that can scarcely be told. There's hardly any thing to take hold of. It's without incident, without progression—it's all subjective—it's a drama in states of mind. Pauline was a 'thing seen,' indeed; but she wasn't a thing known: she was a thing divined. Wildmay never knew her—never even knew who she was—never knew her name—never ...

— The Cardinal's Snuff-Box • Henry Harland

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