progression

progression

English

Etymology

From Old French progression.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈɡɹɛʃən/

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Noun

progression (countable and uncountable, plural progressions)

1. The act of moving from one thing to another.

   Make a natural progression from player to coach

2. The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
   • 2003, T.H. Jafar, et al., Annals of Internal Medicine 139, page 244-252:

     The lowest risk for kidney disease progression seemed to be at levels of current systolic blood pressure of 110 to 129 mm Hg.

3. (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
4. Development, increase, evolution.
5. (music) chord progression
6. (exercise) The making an exercise more exerting by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.

Synonyms

• (mathematics): sequence

Antonyms

• regress
• retrogression

Derived terms

• arithmetic progression
• atheroprogression
• chord progression
• circle progression
• geometric progression
• nilprogression
• nonprogression
• pathoprogression
• progressional
• progressionist
• proregression
• pseudoprogression
• record progression

 

Related terms

• progress

Translations

moving from one thing to another

Albanian: mbrothësi (sq) f Bulgarian: напредване (bg) n (napredvane) Catalan: progressió (ca) f Dutch: voortgang (nl) m Finnish: edistyminen (fi), eteneminen (fi) French: progression (fr) f German: Fortschreiten n, Verlauf (de) m, Fortschritt (de) m, Vorwärtsbewegung (de) f Greek: πρόοδος (el) f (próodos), προχώρηση (el) f (prochórisi) Irish: gluaiseacht f Polish: progresja (pl) f Russian: продвижение (ru) n (prodviženije) Scottish Gaelic: gluasad m Spanish: progresión (es) f Turkish: ilerleme (tr)

mathematical sequence

Arabic: مُتَتَالِيَة‎ (ar) f (mutatāliya) Bulgarian: прогресия (bg) f (progresija) Catalan: progressió (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 数列 (zh) Czech: posloupnost f Finnish: lukujono (fi) German: Progression f, Reihe (de) f, Folge (de) f, Fortschreitung f, Fortschreibung (de) f, Sequenz (de) f Greek: πρόοδος (el) f (próodos) Irish: seicheamh m Italian: progressione (it) f Latvian: progresija f Malay: janjang Polish: ciąg (pl) m, postęp (pl) (obsolete) Portuguese: progressão (pt) f Russian: прогре́ссия (ru) f (progréssija) Spanish: progresión (es) f Tagalog: panisulong

evolution

Bulgarian: развитие (bg) n (razvitie) French: progression (fr) f German: Entwicklung (de) f, Steigerung (de) f, Zunahme (de) f, Weiterentwicklung (de) f, Vorankommen (de) n Italian: progressione (it) f Portuguese: progressão (pt) f Russian: развитие (ru) n (razvitije) Spanish: progresión (es) f Swedish: framsteg (sv) n Turkish: ilerleme (tr)

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Finnish

Noun

progression

1. genitive singular of progressio

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French

Etymology

From Latin progressionem (accusative of progressio).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.sjɔ̃/, /pʁɔ.ɡʁe.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (Switzerland)

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Noun

progression f (plural progressions)

1. progression

Further reading

• “progression”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.