progressionn.

Brit.

/prəˈɡrɛʃn/, U.S.

/prəˈɡrɛʃ(ə)n/,

/proʊˈɡrɛʃ(ə)n/

Forms: Middle English progressioun, Middle English progressyon, Middle English– progression; Scottish pre-1700 progressione, pre-1700 progressioun, pre-1700 1700s– progression.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French progression; Latin prōgressiōn-, prōgressiō.

Etymology: < Middle French progression (French progression ) (in mathematics) series (13th cent. in Old French), series (of events), development (of an idea) (14th cent.), uninterrupted or gradual succession or series (1425), action of moving forwards (1690) and its etymon classical Latin prōgressiōn-, prōgressiō forward movement, advance, development, in post-classical Latin also (in mathematics) series of quantities (4th cent.), action of proceeding or issuing from (5th cent.), progressive motion of a planet (5th cent.; from c1120 in British sources), action of proceeding or continuing (6th cent.), expedition (from c1125 in British sources), (in music) action of proceeding from one note to another (1517 in the passage translated in quot. 1609 at sense 7) < prōgress- , past participial stem of prōgredī to go forward, proceed, to advance, develop, progress (see progredient adj.) + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Italian progressione (1494). Compare progress n.

1. Continuous action conceived or presented as onward movement through time; progress or advancement through a period, process, sequence of events, etc.; movement towards an outcome or goal; (also) such a process; a course (of action, time, life, etc.); a proceeding or process.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > [noun]

birdeOE

birtha1200

i-borenessc1225

bearingc1275

nativityc1375

progressionc1385

gettingc1480

natality1483

naissance1490

falling1533–4

nascence1570

natitial1612

progermination1648

happy event1737

engendure1821

arrival1830

birthhood1867

interesting event1899

the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun]

progressionc1385

proceeding?c1425

progressc1443

proceedc1450

procession1585

gate1604

procedure1640

foreholda1642

process1642

promotion1649

sailing1827

sledding1839

on-go1870

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > from a source

progressionc1385

progressc1530

process1537

emanation1570

the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time

process1357

concoursec1400

coursec1460

successionc1485

passing-by1523

by-passing1526

slacka1533

continuancea1552

race1565

prolapse1585

current1587

decurse1593

passage1596

drifting1610

flux1612

effluxion1621

transcursion1622

decursion1629

devolution1629

progression1646

efflux1647

preterition1647

processus1648

decurrence1659

progress1664

fluxation1710

elapsing1720

currency1726

lapse1758

elapse1793

time-lapse1864

wearing1876

c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 3013 Speces of thynges and progressiouns [v.rr. progressiones, progressiounnys] Shullen enduren by successiouns.

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. vi. 166 The ordre of moevable destyne..neweth ayein alle thinges growynge and fallynge adoun, by semblable progressions [gloss, issu; L. progressus] of sedes and of sexes.

c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 175 Of þinges skars... Nature ne took noght hire produccioun Bot of a hoole, complet..And so fro þennes made progressioun [L. procedens] Vnto þise lowere þinges.

1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. F1^v The originall, progression, continuation and determination of his moste wicked and shamelesse life.

1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 64 That launching and progression of the mind, Which all men haue.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 226 All Starres that have their distance from the Ecliptick Northward not more then 23 degrees and an half..may in progression of time have declination Southward.

c1698 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding §20 The long Progression of the Thoughts to remote and first Principles.

1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 5 Having..obtained by the slow progression of manual industry the accommodations of life.

1789 T. Jefferson Let. 15 Mar. in Papers (1958) XIV. 660 They are in constant progression from bad to worse.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 220 An eddying instead of progression of thought.

1882 R. L. Stevenson Thoreau in Familiar Stud. Men & Bks. iii There is a progression—I cannot call it a progress—in his work toward a more and more strictly prosaic level.

1927 W. S. Churchill in Observer 23 Jan. 11/3 A continued progression to the Left, a sort of inevitable landslide into the abyss, is the characteristic of all revolutions.

1994 Singapore Med. Jrnl. 35 367 Hard contact lenses..have been studied both to arrest the progression of myopia in the young and reduce existing myopia.

†a. A journey (cf. progress n. 6). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [noun]

yongc950

gangOE

goinga1250

walka1300

journeyingc1330

travela1400

progressionc1450

wayfarec1450

travelling1489

wayfaring1536

gate-going?1555

thorough-faring?1575

faring1594

fidging1604

voyaging1611

voyage1626

winning1651

locomotion1759

itinerating1770

passing1821

trekking1850

trooping1888

society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun]

forec900

wayOE

farec1000

sitheOE

gangOE

journey?c1225

gatea1300

pilgrimagec1300

voyage1338

wending1340

raik?c1350

turna1400

repairc1425

went1430

reisea1450

progressionc1450

progressa1460

race1513

peregrination1548

travel1559

passance1580

dogtrot1856

trek1895

ulendo1921

c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) iii. 280 (MED) Vndyr your wenge and youre proteccyon, May be this viage and this progression.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. liij There happened in this progression to the Earle of Richmond a straunge chaunce.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xlij^v When they were with their long and tedyous iourney weried and tyred, and..fell to repentaunce of their mad commocion and frantike progression, then he woulde..circumuent & enuyron theim.

b. Onward motion in space; travelling, locomotion; movement forward, advance; an instance of this. Cf. progress n. 6b, 6c.In quot. a1460: a military advance; a sally.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > [noun]

goinga1250

passagec1300

passingc1350

progressiona1460

local motion1551

progress1564

pass1602

traverse1663

locomoving1704

roll1827

onwards1943

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [noun]

forthgangc900

racea1400

processa1450

remuea1450

profectiona1538

procession1585

advance1593

nod1597

progressa1599

riddance1598

run1626

advancement1637

incession1651

progression1651–3

march1683

progrediency1701

waygate1825

a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 1127 (MED) Beseged if me be, progressioun That ther be noon..ful careful thin alarm is!

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. vi. 177 (heading) Of the yssue of the rooks and of her progression.

1538 D. Lindsay Complaynte & Test. Popiniay sig. Eij Than paciently she made progression Toward the nunnes with herte syghyng full sore.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 138 A letter..which accidentally, or by the way of progression, hath miscarried.

1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 54 Still the Flood [tide] crept by little steppings, and invaded more by his progressions than he lost by his retreat.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. i. 366 I observ'd it [sc. mist] making a creeping Progression in the Valleys.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. viii. 182 The manner of progression in the swiftest serpent we know..is by instantly coiling itself upon its tail, and darting from thence to its full extent.

1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt I. v. 51 Sir Oran's mode of progression being very vacillating, indirect, and titubant.

1883 Cent. Mag. 26 925 This mode of progression requires some muscular exertion.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 541 The fusion of this [sc. a syn-sacrum] with the entire length of the iliac portion of the pelvic girdle, must be interpreted in adaptation to bipedal progression.

1999 Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch (Nexis) 30 May j 1 Its [sc. the lighthouse's] slow progression along the rails to the new site will offer a once-in-a-lifetime view.

†c. A propelling or moving of something. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [noun] > causing to move forward

progression1678

move-on1908

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 95 The longer to continue his several Progressions of the Saw.

3. Mathematics. A sequence of quantities between successive terms of which there is some constant relationship; arrangement in such a series. Chiefly with distinguishing adjective.arithmetic, geometrical, harmonic progression: see the first element.

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [noun] > set > sequence > progression

progressionc1450

arithmetical progression1553

geometrical progression1557

geometric progression1696

geometric ratio1736

arithmetical ratio1798

geometrical ratio1798

arithmetic progression1886

harmonic series1964

c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 45 Of progressioun one is naturelle or contynuelle, þat oþer broken and discontynuelle.

1573 Record's Ground of Arts (rev. ed.) i. i. sig. O.ij^v Arithmeticall progression is a rehearsing..of many numbers..in suche sorte, that betweene euery two next numbres..y^e difference..be equall.

1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. vii. 168 Do you not understand Progression in Arithmetick?

1763 W. Emerson Method of Increments 74 A series of quantities, whose construction and progression is known.

1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic 455 Where the intensity of a sensation increases by equal differences, that is, in arithmetical progression, it implies in the strength of the stimulus an increase in geometrical progression.

1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxxi. 535 These atomic numbers have a definite experimental basis, depending on a regular progression which has been discovered in the frequency of the radiation.

1972 M. Kline Math. Thought xiii. 257 The logarithms increase in arithmetic progression while the numbers (sine values) decrease in geometric progression.

2001 Math. Mag. 74 397 (title) A special case of Dirichlet's theorem on primes in an arithmetic progression.

4. The action of passing successively from each item or term of a series to the next; succession; (also) an instance of this; a series, a sequence. in (also † by) progression: in succession, one after another, gradually.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun]

successionc1405

progression1483

discourse1541

consequency1548

array1576

consequence1597

sequence1597

concatenation1614

catenation1641

pursuance1645

consecution1651

successivenessa1676

sequentialism1848

successivity1866

sequentiality1883

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > in order, sequence, or succession [phrase]

a-row?c1225

by rowc1230

on (also upon) a rowc1300

by and by1330

in a rowc1330

on rowc1330

in routc1390

in successionc1449

by succession(s)?a1475

in sequencea1575

in (also by) progression1660

member by member1726

in file1744

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. xxiv^v/1 They durste not auaunce them to fore the dyuyne progression.

c1536 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hist. & Chron. Scotl. (1821) I. 6 Of this Hiber discendit, be lang progressioun, ane gret posterite.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 37 Be progressione and ordur euyrie spere inclosis the spere that is nerest tyl it.

1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints sig. O4 What else then did he by progression, But mocke high God himselfe, whom they professe?

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 397 The Brasilians are said originally to have come..from Peru, advancing thither by progression from time to time.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxviii. 167 Of the bulk of the Body, to be thus infinitely divided after certain Progressions,..we have no clear..Ideas.

1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature II. iii. 275 A gradual progression thro' the points of space and time.

1774 J. Beattie Minstrel: 2nd Bk. xlvi. 24 The laws..Whose long progression leads to Deity.

1844 R. Southey Life A. Bell I. 175 The experiment which..had been tried..with one class, was..extended to all the others in progression.

1899 E. J. Payne Hist. New World II. 201 This multiplication of elements denoting personality, in combination with more and more elements denoting Things, tends to the dissolution of the holophrase... The holophrase naturally follows the progression of the mind from point to point.

1909 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 20 4 A progression of stimulus intensities such that the differences of corresponding sensation between any consecutive pairs are equal to one another.

1958 W. E. Swinton Fossil Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 2) ii. 6 Nearly all amphibians and most reptiles used all four limbs in progression, but many important reptiles were bipedal.

1992 European Travel & Life Apr. 91/1 A vista that unfolds in a progression of castles, ruins, and vineyards as seemingly endless as the Rhine itself.

a. Astronomy. Direct or prograde motion, esp. of a planet (cf. progressive adj. 1a). Opposed to retrogradation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > planetary movement > [noun] > direct motion

progression1556

profection1650

direction1658

consequence1771

1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 279 The progression, retrogradation, and station of the Planetes.

1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 182 The whole progression of the moon's apogee..is ascribed to the sun's disturbance of the moon's gravitation to the earth.

1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. xix. 207 Progression is here..used technically: a motion in consequentia, or, according to the order of the signs.

1999 D. Sobel Galileo's Daughter (2000) vi. 64 The Ptolemaic system granted the Sun two motions. One of these, a slow annual progression from west to east, belonged strictly to the Sun itself.

†b. month of progression n. Astronomy Obsolete the interval between successive conjunctions of the moon and the sun.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > lunar month

monthOE

lunation1398

moon1487

month of consecution in Astr1561

lunar month1594

lunary month1602

periodical month1603

month of progression1615

synodic month1669

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 336 The moneth of Progression he calleth that space which commeth betweene one coniunction of the Moone with the Sunne and another, and it conteyneth nine and twenty dayes and a halfe.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 212 The month of Consecution, or as some will terme it, of Progression, is the space between one Conjunction of the Moon with the Sun unto another.

c. Astrology. The movement of a planet beginning on the day of a person's birth, used as a means of making predictions about the person, usually with one day of planetary movement taken as equivalent to one year of life; a depiction of this.

ΚΠ

1938 E. Lyndoe Compl. Pract. Astrol. xii. 227 The name for a chart..called a Progressed Chart, or just a ‘progression’.

1974 A. Lurie War between Tates (1977) v. 117 Those Mercury and Venus progressions never act much on me.

1982 C. Rose Astrol. Counselling viii. 104 Whereas a progression is the movement of a planet during the course of life.., a transit is the passage of a planet in the heavens at the current time over a planetary position at birth.

1987 N. Campion Pract. Astrologer (1993) xii. 104/2 There are about 20 different types of progression although only a few are in common use.

6. The process of advancing to a further or higher stage, or to further or higher stages successively; development, advancement; improvement; an instance of this (cf. progress n. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun]

growingc1380

profitingc1384

increasec1385

bettering?c1425

progress1457

advancementc1475

service1533

progression1586

increment1609

upgrowinga1618

flowering1629

rise1676

development1756

evolution1796

march1818

headway1832

upgrowth1844

upbuilding1876

the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > to a further or higher stage

profitingc1384

progress1457

progression1586

movement1866

1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. E5^v His..knowledge in the latine toong, was so perfect, his progression in the greek so excellent.

a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) ii. ii. 95 I must..take..the boldnesse to reprehende your slowe progression in doeinge her greatnesse right.

1676 A. Sammes Britannia Antiqua Illustrata 10 Having premised thus much concerning the general increase of Man-kind, the slow progression of Nations, and the advantage those People had that lay upon the Midland-Sea.

a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 133 Having inquired divers things of me, with respect to my former Progression in Learning.

1792 T. Paine Rights of Man: Pt. Second v. 150 When wages are fixed by what is called a law, the legal wages remain stationary, while everything else is in progression.

1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm viii. 184 The progression of decay and perversion has been gradually and distinctly contemplated.

1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile v. 105 To trace the progression and retrogression of the arts from the Pyramid-builders to the Cæsars.

1908 Man. Physical Training (H.M.S.O.) viii. 185 Progression should be obtained by gradually raising the height of the pommel horse till it is somewhat higher than the average troop horse.

1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley vii. 82 They show a normal progression from boyhood to manhood.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. 31/4 A winningly self-deprecating account of his life as an actor, tracing his progression from a teenager infatuated with Gilbert and Sullivan to a RADA-trained actor.

7. Music. Movement from one note to another in a melody, or from one chord or key to another; a succession of chords or harmonies; a melodic sequence of notes considered in relation to their underlying harmonies.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [noun] > melodic progression

progression1609

movement1683

succession1737

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts

progression1609

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 29 An authenticall progression [L. progressio], is the ascending beyond the Finall Key to an eight, and a tenth.

1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 125 Degrees, are uncompounded Intervals,..by which an immediate Ascent or Descent is made from the Unison to the Octave..; and by the same progression to as many Octaves as there may be Occasion.

1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Musick xiii. 441 Under the Term of Modulation may be comprehended the regular Progression of the several Parts thro' the Sounds that are in the Harmony of any particular Key.

1752 C. Avison Ess. Musical Expression 67 By a Diversity of Harmonies, the Chain and Progression of Melodies is also finely supported.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Moto contrario An expression applied to that progression of the different harmonic parts of a composition by which they move in opposite directions.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xxxiii. 393 We may continue the modulation or progression, until every note of the scale becomes in succession a key note.

1877 J. Stainer Harmony v. §69 In harmonising such a progression as the following [etc.].

1889 E. Prout Harmony iv. §102 Such progressions are called ‘hidden’ octaves or fifths.

1927 Observer 2 Oct. 14/4 The work was well chosen to follow the Schubert Quintet, for in its trio there is the germ from which sprang what is now recognised as a truly Schubertian progression.

1995 City Paper (Baltimore) 31 May 41/3 At her last Meyerhoff gig Colvin launched into a medley of songs that share the same chord progression.

8. Linguistics. The process of sound change in a language; an instance of this. Now rare except as merged with general sense at 4.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [noun] > advance in sound development

progression1851

1851 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 2 251 We see here regular vowel-progression from the broad open a to th closer e.

1877 F. A. March Compar. Gram. Anglo-Saxon Lang. 27 The first lengthening of i and u by progression is called guna.

1916 N.E.D. at Turquoise Old French and Anglo-Norman turkeis..by vowel-progression became turkē·se.

1933 Language 9 24 One..finds..the phonetic progression: *pōclĭlŏm > pōcĭllum.

9. Physics. A series of regularly spaced lines or bands in a spectrum which arise from transitions to or from a series of energy levels with consecutive quantum numbers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > decomposition of light, spectrum > [noun] > lines reflecting energy levels

progression1926

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [noun] > spectrum > band or line forming part of > specific line or lines

absorption line1861

triplet1879

furnace line1911

singlet1920

progression1926

1926 Physical Rev. 28 638 In other words we suppose that the absorption bands whose stimulation is associated with these series all belong to a single n′ progression.

1949 P. Pringsheim Fluorescence & Phosphorescence ii. 136 If all excited molecules of a vapor are in one definite vibrational level v′ of an electronic state T′, they can return from there to all existing levels v″ of the ground state and thus produce an emission spectrum in which the lines corresponding to v″ = 0, 1, 2..form a regular ‘progression’.

1976 Chem. Physics Lett. 41 289/2 The Raman spectrum is completely dominated by an intense band at 316 cm⁻¹ and its associated overtone progression.

2006 Dyes & Pigments 70 228/2 The solution spectrum exhibits a typical progression of absorption bands starting from 525 nm with a spacing about 1400 cm⁻¹.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	progression
释义	progressionn. Brit. /prəˈɡrɛʃn/, U.S. /prəˈɡrɛʃ(ə)n/, /proʊˈɡrɛʃ(ə)n/ Forms: Middle English progressioun, Middle English progressyon, Middle English– progression; Scottish pre-1700 progressione, pre-1700 progressioun, pre-1700 1700s– progression. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French progression; Latin prōgressiōn-, prōgressiō. Etymology: < Middle French progression (French progression ) (in mathematics) series (13th cent. in Old French), series (of events), development (of an idea) (14th cent.), uninterrupted or gradual succession or series (1425), action of moving forwards (1690) and its etymon classical Latin prōgressiōn-, prōgressiō forward movement, advance, development, in post-classical Latin also (in mathematics) series of quantities (4th cent.), action of proceeding or issuing from (5th cent.), progressive motion of a planet (5th cent.; from c1120 in British sources), action of proceeding or continuing (6th cent.), expedition (from c1125 in British sources), (in music) action of proceeding from one note to another (1517 in the passage translated in quot. 1609 at sense 7) < prōgress- , past participial stem of prōgredī to go forward, proceed, to advance, develop, progress (see progredient adj.) + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Italian progressione (1494). Compare progress n. 1. Continuous action conceived or presented as onward movement through time; progress or advancement through a period, process, sequence of events, etc.; movement towards an outcome or goal; (also) such a process; a course (of action, time, life, etc.); a proceeding or process. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > [noun] birdeOE birtha1200 i-borenessc1225 bearingc1275 nativityc1375 progressionc1385 gettingc1480 natality1483 naissance1490 falling1533–4 nascence1570 natitial1612 progermination1648 happy event1737 engendure1821 arrival1830 birthhood1867 interesting event1899 the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] progressionc1385 proceeding?c1425 progressc1443 proceedc1450 procession1585 gate1604 procedure1640 foreholda1642 process1642 promotion1649 sailing1827 sledding1839 on-go1870 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > from a source progressionc1385 progressc1530 process1537 emanation1570 the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time process1357 concoursec1400 coursec1460 successionc1485 passing-by1523 by-passing1526 slacka1533 continuancea1552 race1565 prolapse1585 current1587 decurse1593 passage1596 drifting1610 flux1612 effluxion1621 transcursion1622 decursion1629 devolution1629 progression1646 efflux1647 preterition1647 processus1648 decurrence1659 progress1664 fluxation1710 elapsing1720 currency1726 lapse1758 elapse1793 time-lapse1864 wearing1876 c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 3013 Speces of thynges and progressiouns [v.rr. progressiones, progressiounnys] Shullen enduren by successiouns. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. vi. 166 The ordre of moevable destyne..neweth ayein alle thinges growynge and fallynge adoun, by semblable progressions [gloss, issu; L. progressus] of sedes and of sexes. c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 175 Of þinges skars... Nature ne took noght hire produccioun Bot of a hoole, complet..And so fro þennes made progressioun [L. procedens] Vnto þise lowere þinges. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. F1^v The originall, progression, continuation and determination of his moste wicked and shamelesse life. 1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 64 That launching and progression of the mind, Which all men haue. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 226 All Starres that have their distance from the Ecliptick Northward not more then 23 degrees and an half..may in progression of time have declination Southward. View more context for this quotation c1698 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding §20 The long Progression of the Thoughts to remote and first Principles. 1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 5 Having..obtained by the slow progression of manual industry the accommodations of life. 1789 T. Jefferson Let. 15 Mar. in Papers (1958) XIV. 660 They are in constant progression from bad to worse. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 220 An eddying instead of progression of thought. 1882 R. L. Stevenson Thoreau in Familiar Stud. Men & Bks. iii There is a progression—I cannot call it a progress—in his work toward a more and more strictly prosaic level. 1927 W. S. Churchill in Observer 23 Jan. 11/3 A continued progression to the Left, a sort of inevitable landslide into the abyss, is the characteristic of all revolutions. 1994 Singapore Med. Jrnl. 35 367 Hard contact lenses..have been studied both to arrest the progression of myopia in the young and reduce existing myopia. 2. †a. A journey (cf. progress n. 6). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [noun] yongc950 gangOE goinga1250 walka1300 journeyingc1330 travela1400 progressionc1450 wayfarec1450 travelling1489 wayfaring1536 gate-going?1555 thorough-faring?1575 faring1594 fidging1604 voyaging1611 voyage1626 winning1651 locomotion1759 itinerating1770 passing1821 trekking1850 trooping1888 society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] forec900 wayOE farec1000 sitheOE gangOE journey?c1225 gatea1300 pilgrimagec1300 voyage1338 wending1340 raik?c1350 turna1400 repairc1425 went1430 reisea1450 progressionc1450 progressa1460 race1513 peregrination1548 travel1559 passance1580 dogtrot1856 trek1895 ulendo1921 c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) iii. 280 (MED) Vndyr your wenge and youre proteccyon, May be this viage and this progression. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. liij There happened in this progression to the Earle of Richmond a straunge chaunce. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xlij^v When they were with their long and tedyous iourney weried and tyred, and..fell to repentaunce of their mad commocion and frantike progression, then he woulde..circumuent & enuyron theim. b. Onward motion in space; travelling, locomotion; movement forward, advance; an instance of this. Cf. progress n. 6b, 6c.In quot. a1460: a military advance; a sally. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > [noun] goinga1250 passagec1300 passingc1350 progressiona1460 local motion1551 progress1564 pass1602 traverse1663 locomoving1704 roll1827 onwards1943 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [noun] forthgangc900 racea1400 processa1450 remuea1450 profectiona1538 procession1585 advance1593 nod1597 progressa1599 riddance1598 run1626 advancement1637 incession1651 progression1651–3 march1683 progrediency1701 waygate1825 a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 1127 (MED) Beseged if me be, progressioun That ther be noon..ful careful thin alarm is! 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. vi. 177 (heading) Of the yssue of the rooks and of her progression. 1538 D. Lindsay Complaynte & Test. Popiniay sig. Eij Than paciently she made progression Toward the nunnes with herte syghyng full sore. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 138 A letter..which accidentally, or by the way of progression, hath miscarried. View more context for this quotation 1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 54 Still the Flood [tide] crept by little steppings, and invaded more by his progressions than he lost by his retreat. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. i. 366 I observ'd it [sc. mist] making a creeping Progression in the Valleys. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. viii. 182 The manner of progression in the swiftest serpent we know..is by instantly coiling itself upon its tail, and darting from thence to its full extent. 1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt I. v. 51 Sir Oran's mode of progression being very vacillating, indirect, and titubant. 1883 Cent. Mag. 26 925 This mode of progression requires some muscular exertion. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 541 The fusion of this [sc. a syn-sacrum] with the entire length of the iliac portion of the pelvic girdle, must be interpreted in adaptation to bipedal progression. 1999 Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch (Nexis) 30 May j 1 Its [sc. the lighthouse's] slow progression along the rails to the new site will offer a once-in-a-lifetime view. †c. A propelling or moving of something. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [noun] > causing to move forward progression1678 move-on1908 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 95 The longer to continue his several Progressions of the Saw. 3. Mathematics. A sequence of quantities between successive terms of which there is some constant relationship; arrangement in such a series. Chiefly with distinguishing adjective.arithmetic, geometrical, harmonic progression: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [noun] > set > sequence > progression progressionc1450 arithmetical progression1553 geometrical progression1557 geometric progression1696 geometric ratio1736 arithmetical ratio1798 geometrical ratio1798 arithmetic progression1886 harmonic series1964 c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 45 Of progressioun one is naturelle or contynuelle, þat oþer broken and discontynuelle. 1573 Record's Ground of Arts (rev. ed.) i. i. sig. O.ij^v Arithmeticall progression is a rehearsing..of many numbers..in suche sorte, that betweene euery two next numbres..y^e difference..be equall. 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. vii. 168 Do you not understand Progression in Arithmetick? 1763 W. Emerson Method of Increments 74 A series of quantities, whose construction and progression is known. 1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic 455 Where the intensity of a sensation increases by equal differences, that is, in arithmetical progression, it implies in the strength of the stimulus an increase in geometrical progression. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxxi. 535 These atomic numbers have a definite experimental basis, depending on a regular progression which has been discovered in the frequency of the radiation. 1972 M. Kline Math. Thought xiii. 257 The logarithms increase in arithmetic progression while the numbers (sine values) decrease in geometric progression. 2001 Math. Mag. 74 397 (title) A special case of Dirichlet's theorem on primes in an arithmetic progression. 4. The action of passing successively from each item or term of a series to the next; succession; (also) an instance of this; a series, a sequence. in (also † by) progression: in succession, one after another, gradually. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] successionc1405 progression1483 discourse1541 consequency1548 array1576 consequence1597 sequence1597 concatenation1614 catenation1641 pursuance1645 consecution1651 successivenessa1676 sequentialism1848 successivity1866 sequentiality1883 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > in order, sequence, or succession [phrase] a-row?c1225 by rowc1230 on (also upon) a rowc1300 by and by1330 in a rowc1330 on rowc1330 in routc1390 in successionc1449 by succession(s)?a1475 in sequencea1575 in (also by) progression1660 member by member1726 in file1744 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. xxiv^v/1 They durste not auaunce them to fore the dyuyne progression. c1536 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hist. & Chron. Scotl. (1821) I. 6 Of this Hiber discendit, be lang progressioun, ane gret posterite. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 37 Be progressione and ordur euyrie spere inclosis the spere that is nerest tyl it. 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints sig. O4 What else then did he by progression, But mocke high God himselfe, whom they professe? 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 397 The Brasilians are said originally to have come..from Peru, advancing thither by progression from time to time. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxviii. 167 Of the bulk of the Body, to be thus infinitely divided after certain Progressions,..we have no clear..Ideas. 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature II. iii. 275 A gradual progression thro' the points of space and time. 1774 J. Beattie Minstrel: 2nd Bk. xlvi. 24 The laws..Whose long progression leads to Deity. 1844 R. Southey Life A. Bell I. 175 The experiment which..had been tried..with one class, was..extended to all the others in progression. 1899 E. J. Payne Hist. New World II. 201 This multiplication of elements denoting personality, in combination with more and more elements denoting Things, tends to the dissolution of the holophrase... The holophrase naturally follows the progression of the mind from point to point. 1909 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 20 4 A progression of stimulus intensities such that the differences of corresponding sensation between any consecutive pairs are equal to one another. 1958 W. E. Swinton Fossil Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 2) ii. 6 Nearly all amphibians and most reptiles used all four limbs in progression, but many important reptiles were bipedal. 1992 European Travel & Life Apr. 91/1 A vista that unfolds in a progression of castles, ruins, and vineyards as seemingly endless as the Rhine itself. 5. a. Astronomy. Direct or prograde motion, esp. of a planet (cf. progressive adj. 1a). Opposed to retrogradation. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > planetary movement > [noun] > direct motion progression1556 profection1650 direction1658 consequence1771 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 279 The progression, retrogradation, and station of the Planetes. 1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 182 The whole progression of the moon's apogee..is ascribed to the sun's disturbance of the moon's gravitation to the earth. 1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. xix. 207 Progression is here..used technically: a motion in consequentia, or, according to the order of the signs. 1999 D. Sobel Galileo's Daughter (2000) vi. 64 The Ptolemaic system granted the Sun two motions. One of these, a slow annual progression from west to east, belonged strictly to the Sun itself. †b. month of progression n. Astronomy Obsolete the interval between successive conjunctions of the moon and the sun. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > lunar month monthOE lunation1398 moon1487 month of consecution in Astr1561 lunar month1594 lunary month1602 periodical month1603 month of progression1615 synodic month1669 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 336 The moneth of Progression he calleth that space which commeth betweene one coniunction of the Moone with the Sunne and another, and it conteyneth nine and twenty dayes and a halfe. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 212 The month of Consecution, or as some will terme it, of Progression, is the space between one Conjunction of the Moon with the Sun unto another. View more context for this quotation c. Astrology. The movement of a planet beginning on the day of a person's birth, used as a means of making predictions about the person, usually with one day of planetary movement taken as equivalent to one year of life; a depiction of this. ΚΠ 1938 E. Lyndoe Compl. Pract. Astrol. xii. 227 The name for a chart..called a Progressed Chart, or just a ‘progression’. 1974 A. Lurie War between Tates (1977) v. 117 Those Mercury and Venus progressions never act much on me. 1982 C. Rose Astrol. Counselling viii. 104 Whereas a progression is the movement of a planet during the course of life.., a transit is the passage of a planet in the heavens at the current time over a planetary position at birth. 1987 N. Campion Pract. Astrologer (1993) xii. 104/2 There are about 20 different types of progression although only a few are in common use. 6. The process of advancing to a further or higher stage, or to further or higher stages successively; development, advancement; improvement; an instance of this (cf. progress n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] growingc1380 profitingc1384 increasec1385 bettering?c1425 progress1457 advancementc1475 service1533 progression1586 increment1609 upgrowinga1618 flowering1629 rise1676 development1756 evolution1796 march1818 headway1832 upgrowth1844 upbuilding1876 the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > to a further or higher stage profitingc1384 progress1457 progression1586 movement1866 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. E5^v His..knowledge in the latine toong, was so perfect, his progression in the greek so excellent. a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) ii. ii. 95 I must..take..the boldnesse to reprehende your slowe progression in doeinge her greatnesse right. 1676 A. Sammes Britannia Antiqua Illustrata 10 Having premised thus much concerning the general increase of Man-kind, the slow progression of Nations, and the advantage those People had that lay upon the Midland-Sea. a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 133 Having inquired divers things of me, with respect to my former Progression in Learning. 1792 T. Paine Rights of Man: Pt. Second v. 150 When wages are fixed by what is called a law, the legal wages remain stationary, while everything else is in progression. 1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm viii. 184 The progression of decay and perversion has been gradually and distinctly contemplated. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile v. 105 To trace the progression and retrogression of the arts from the Pyramid-builders to the Cæsars. 1908 Man. Physical Training (H.M.S.O.) viii. 185 Progression should be obtained by gradually raising the height of the pommel horse till it is somewhat higher than the average troop horse. 1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley vii. 82 They show a normal progression from boyhood to manhood. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. 31/4 A winningly self-deprecating account of his life as an actor, tracing his progression from a teenager infatuated with Gilbert and Sullivan to a RADA-trained actor. 7. Music. Movement from one note to another in a melody, or from one chord or key to another; a succession of chords or harmonies; a melodic sequence of notes considered in relation to their underlying harmonies. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [noun] > melodic progression progression1609 movement1683 succession1737 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts progression1609 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 29 An authenticall progression [L. progressio], is the ascending beyond the Finall Key to an eight, and a tenth. 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 125 Degrees, are uncompounded Intervals,..by which an immediate Ascent or Descent is made from the Unison to the Octave..; and by the same progression to as many Octaves as there may be Occasion. 1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Musick xiii. 441 Under the Term of Modulation may be comprehended the regular Progression of the several Parts thro' the Sounds that are in the Harmony of any particular Key. 1752 C. Avison Ess. Musical Expression 67 By a Diversity of Harmonies, the Chain and Progression of Melodies is also finely supported. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Moto contrario An expression applied to that progression of the different harmonic parts of a composition by which they move in opposite directions. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xxxiii. 393 We may continue the modulation or progression, until every note of the scale becomes in succession a key note. 1877 J. Stainer Harmony v. §69 In harmonising such a progression as the following [etc.]. 1889 E. Prout Harmony iv. §102 Such progressions are called ‘hidden’ octaves or fifths. 1927 Observer 2 Oct. 14/4 The work was well chosen to follow the Schubert Quintet, for in its trio there is the germ from which sprang what is now recognised as a truly Schubertian progression. 1995 City Paper (Baltimore) 31 May 41/3 At her last Meyerhoff gig Colvin launched into a medley of songs that share the same chord progression. 8. Linguistics. The process of sound change in a language; an instance of this. Now rare except as merged with general sense at 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [noun] > advance in sound development progression1851 1851 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 2 251 We see here regular vowel-progression from the broad open a to th closer e. 1877 F. A. March Compar. Gram. Anglo-Saxon Lang. 27 The first lengthening of i and u by progression is called guna. 1916 N.E.D. at Turquoise Old French and Anglo-Norman turkeis..by vowel-progression became turkē·se. 1933 Language 9 24 One..finds..the phonetic progression: *pōclĭlŏm > pōcĭllum. 9. Physics. A series of regularly spaced lines or bands in a spectrum which arise from transitions to or from a series of energy levels with consecutive quantum numbers. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > decomposition of light, spectrum > [noun] > lines reflecting energy levels progression1926 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [noun] > spectrum > band or line forming part of > specific line or lines absorption line1861 triplet1879 furnace line1911 singlet1920 progression1926 1926 Physical Rev. 28 638 In other words we suppose that the absorption bands whose stimulation is associated with these series all belong to a single n′ progression. 1949 P. Pringsheim Fluorescence & Phosphorescence ii. 136 If all excited molecules of a vapor are in one definite vibrational level v′ of an electronic state T′, they can return from there to all existing levels v″ of the ground state and thus produce an emission spectrum in which the lines corresponding to v″ = 0, 1, 2..form a regular ‘progression’. 1976 Chem. Physics Lett. 41 289/2 The Raman spectrum is completely dominated by an intense band at 316 cm⁻¹ and its associated overtone progression. 2006 Dyes & Pigments 70 228/2 The solution spectrum exhibits a typical progression of absorption bands starting from 525 nm with a spacing about 1400 cm⁻¹. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1385
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