the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
a passing successively from one member of a series to the next; succession; sequence.
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.
Music. the manner in which chords or melodic tones follow one another; a succession of chords or tones.
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
In the cool rows, robotic-looking lights blink green and blue in orderly progression.
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If your numbers are plentiful enough to make this sum infinite, Erdős conjectured that your list should contain infinitely many arithmetic progressions of every finite length — triples, quadruples and so forth.
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Even if we ignore the impact on our progression and workload, we aren’t doing SEO for the sake of it.
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[I] had to create the progression of where he was emotionally.
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The Daily Beast: Von Trier follows a girl named Joe from her progression through adolescence into adulthood.
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There has to be a progression in what Francis is willing to do in order to move forward, and that was the natural progression.
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And 10 months of stability is but a moment of time for HIV, for which progression is measured in years.
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She was left with an aching desire to turn back time and stop the progression of that clock.
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And if you doubt the progression, be pleased, my dear, to take your mother's judgment upon it.
Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9)|Samuel Richardson
This mode of progression was, however, very unusual, and is more characteristic of the Hylobates than of the Orang.
The Malay Archipelago|Alfred Russell Wallace
A meal has a progression and projects expectations associated with this progression.
The Civilization of Illiteracy|Mihai Nadin
He would be putting himself entirely outside the progression of advancement.
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Progression from one chord to another is called Harmonic progression; from one tone to another, Melodic progression.
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British Dictionary definitions for progression
progression
/ (prəˈɡrɛʃən) /
noun
the act of progressing; advancement
the act or an instance of moving from one thing or unit in a sequence to the next
mathsa sequence of numbers in which each term differs from the succeeding term by a constant relationSee also arithmetic progression, geometric progression, harmonic progression
musicmovement, esp of a logical kind, from one note to the next (melodic progression) or from one chord to the next (harmonic progression)
astrologyone of several calculations, based on the movement of the planets, from which it is supposed that one can find the expected developments in a person's birth chart and the probable trends of circumstances for a year in his life