progression
Definition of progression:
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part of speech: adjective
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part of speech: noun
Regular and gradual advance in any sense; improvement; a proportional and regular increase or decrease in numbers or magnitudes- applied to arith. and geom. respectively; in music, a regular succession of chords, or their movement in harmony.
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part of speech: noun
Motion onward: progress: regular and gradual advance: increase or decrease of numbers or magnitudes according to a fixed law: ( music) a regular succession of chords or movement in harmony.
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Common misspellings:
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- progresion (16.7%)
- progressin (1.1%)
- progresssion (3.3%)
- progession (52.2%)
- progrssion (4.4%)
- prgogression (2.2%)
- pregression (2.2%)
- proggression (3.3%)
- progresstion (2.2%)
- prgression (7.8%)
- progreshion (2.2%)
- progressioin (2.2%)
Usage examples for progression:
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That bit of a stop was scarcely a check in the progression of her thoughts.
"This Freedom" – A. S. M. Hutchinson -
Progression directly upwards was then impossible.
"The Ascent of the Matterhorn" – Edward Whymper -
The three angles of a triangle, of perfect accuracy of form, are absolutely equal to two right angles; no stretch of progression will detect any error.
"A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)" – Augustus de Morgan
