progression

English

Etymology

From Old French progression.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈɡɹɛʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

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, pages 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, countable) A chord progression.
6. (exercise) The process of making an exercise more strenuous by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.

Synonyms

• (mathematics): sequence

Antonyms

• regress
• retrogression

Derived terms

• '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
• 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) (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)
• 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)

Finnish

Noun

progression

1. genitive singular of progressio

French

Etymology

From Latin progressionem (accusative of progressio).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Switzerland):

  (file)

Noun

progression f (plural progressions)

1. progression

Further reading

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