progression
/pɹəˈɡɹɛʃn̩/US/pɹəˈɡɹɛʃən/
progression noun: the act of moving from one thing to another.
Noun
progression (countable and uncountable, plural progressions)
- The act of moving from one thing to another.
- Make a natural progression from player to coach
- Synonyms:
- swing
- The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
- The lowest risk for kidney disease progression seemed to be at levels of current systolic blood pressure of 110 to 129 mm Hg.2003, T.H. Jafar et al., Annals of Internal Medicine 139, pages 244–252
- A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
- Development, increase, evolution.
- Synonyms:
- swing
- A chord progression.
- The process of making an exercise more strenuous by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
progression meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
progression in Tamil
- விருத்தி, தொடர், எண் ஏற்றம், வளர்வீத முறை, சிக்கலாதல், தீவிரமடைதல்
progression in Bengali
- অগ্রগতি, ধারাবাহিক উন্নতি
progression in Malayalam
- advancement, progress, movement
- പുരോഗമനം, പുരോഗതി, വൃദ്ധി, സ്ഫാതി, പുഷ്ടി, അഭിവൃദ്ധി
- sequence, succession, series
- ശ്രേണി, പരമ്പര, നിര, പ്രവാഹം, മാല, വരി
progression in Kannada
- ಮುನ್ನಡೆ, ಪ್ರಗತಿ, ಸರಣಿ, ಶ್ರೇಣಿ
More languagesFewer languages
- progression in Tagalog
- panisulong
- progression in Arabic
- مُتَتَالِيَة mutatāliya
- progression in Malay
- janjang
Examples of progression in a sentence
- The research probes whether treating pre-diabetes with metformin can prevent progression to frank diabetes.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:'50s progression.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:50's progression.
Synonyms of progression
Antonyms
Forms of progression
| plural | progressions |
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Origin of progression
From Middle English progressioun, from Old French progression and its etymon Latin prōgressiō. By surface analysis, progress + -ion.
Words formed from progression
- '50s progression
- arithmetical progression
- arithmetic progression
- atheroprogression
- Axis progression
- backdoor progression
- chord progression
- circle progression
- cross-progression
- doo-wop progression
- geometrical progression
- geometric progression
- harmonic progression
- hyperprogression
- meta-progression
- neuroprogression
- nilprogression
- nonprogression
- oligoprogression
- omnibus progression
- pathoprogression
- postprogression
- progressional
- progressionary
- progressionism
- progressionist
- proregression
- pseudoprogression
- record progression
- semantic progression
- time to progression
Phrases with progression
Questions about progression
- What does progression mean?
- Progression means the act of moving from one thing to another.
- What is progression in Tamil?
- Progression in Tamil is விருத்தி, தொடர், எண் ஏற்றம். See Progression meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is progression?
- Progression is a noun.
- How do you pronounce progression?
- Progression is pronounced /pɹəˈɡɹɛʃn̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of progression?
- The plural of progression is progressions.
Words near progression in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: progression (page history and authors); progression (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); progression (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); progression (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); progression (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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