Word Meanings - PROGRESSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse

Additional info about word: PROGRESSION

Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse or process of time. I hope, in a short progression, you will be wholly immerged in the delices and joys of religion. Evelyn.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROGRESSION)

• Flux
• Flow
• motion
• progression
• change
• substitution
• transmutation
• Sequence
• Following
• order
• succession
• series
• consequence
• continuity
• posteriority
• Step
• Advance
• pace
• space
• grade
• remove
• degree
• gradation
• track
• trice
• walk
• gait
• proceeding
• action
• measure

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROGRESSION)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion

Related words: (words related to PROGRESSION)

• TRANSMUTATIONIST
  One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• CONTINUITY
  the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• PROCEED
  To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
• PROCEEDER
  One who proceeds.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• TRICENTENARY
  Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n.
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• FRICATRICE
  A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• PHYSOGRADE
  Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.
• FRATRICELLI
  The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century. A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and
• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• RETROGRADATION
  1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• SALTIGRADE
  Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• DISCONTINUITY
  Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.