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gradacja

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See also: gradacją

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin gradātiō.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡraˈda.t͡sja/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -at͡sja
  • Syllabification: gra‧da‧cja

Noun

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gradacja f

  1. (literary) gradation (a passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another)
  2. (literary) gradation (the act of gradating or arranging in grades)
    Synonym: ranking
  3. (biology) a sudden growth in the strength of some pest for a given crop
  4. (photography) gradation (a matieral's ability to convey tonal differences)
  5. (rhetoric, literary) climax, incrementum (a rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order)
    Synonym: klimaks
  6. (grammar) gradation (a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe)
    Synonyms: klimaks, stopniowanie
  7. (geology) planation (the formation of a flat surface by erosion and deposition)
    Synonym: planacja

Declension

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Derived terms

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adjective
noun
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adjective
adverb
nouns
verb

Further reading

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  • gradacja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • gradacja in Polish dictionaries at PWN