progression

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French progression.

Noun

progression (countable and uncountable, plural progressions)

1. The act of moving from one thing to another.
2. The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
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     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

Synonyms

• (mathematics): sequence

Derived terms

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

 

Related terms

• progress

Translations

moving from one thing to another

• Catalan: progressió f
• Finnish: edistyminen (fi), eteneminen (fi)
• French: progression (fr) f
• German: Fortschreiten n, Verlauf (de) m, Fortschritt (de) m, Vorwärtsbewegung f
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• Greek: πρόοδος (el) f (próodos), προχώρηση (el) f (prochórisi)
• Irish: gluaiseacht f
• Scottish Gaelic: gluasad m
• Spanish: progresión (es) f

mathematical sequence

• Catalan: progressió f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 数列 (zh) (shùliè)

• 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)
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• Irish: seicheamh m
• 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

• French: progression (fr)
• German: Entwicklung (de) f, Steigerung (de) f, Zunahme (de) f, Weiterentwicklung f, Vorankommen (de) n
• Italian: progressione (it)
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• Portuguese: progressão (pt)
• Spanish: progresión (es)

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Finnish

Noun

progression

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of progressio

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin progressionem (accusative of progressio).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

progression f (plural progressions)

1. progression

Further reading

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