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Progression [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onwards.

2. Intellectual advance; as the progression of thought.

3. Course; passage.

4. In mathematics, regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical or geometrical. Continued arithmetical proportion, is when the terms increase or decrease by equal differences. Thus,

5. 4. 6. 8. 10.

6. . 8. 6. 4. 2. by the difference 2.

7. Geometrical proportion or progression is when the terms increase or decrease by equal ratios. Thus,

8. 4. 8. 16. 32. 64.

9. 32. 16. 8. 4. 2. by a continual multiplication or division by 2.

Progression [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.

2. Course; passage; lapse or process of time.

3. Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic.

4. A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key.

Progressional [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That advances; that is in a state of advance.

Progressional [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.

Progressionist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection.

2. One who maintains the doctrine of progression in organic forms; -- opposed to uniformitarian.

Order Roget’s Thesaurus §58

N. order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus ordo, music of the spheres, gradation, progression, series, subordination, course, even tenor, routine, method, disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline orderliness, rank, place

V. be in order, become in order, form, fall in, draw up, arrange itself, range itself, place itself, fall into one's place, take one's place, take one's rank, rally round, adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize

Adj. orderly, regular, in order, in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper place, neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic, unconfused &c. (see confuse ), arranged

Adv. in order, methodically, in -turn, - its turn, step by step, by regular -steps, -gradations, -stages, -intervals, seriatim, systematically, by clockwork, gradatim, at stated periods

Phr. natura non facit saltum, "order is heaven's first law", "order from disorder sprung", ordo est parium dispariumque rerum sua loca tribuens dispositio

Continuity Roget’s Thesaurus §69

N. continuity, consecution, consecutiveness, succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain, catenation, concatenation, scale, gradation, course, ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent, procession, column, retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array, pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race, ancestry, descent, family, house, line, line of ancestors, strain, rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team, suit, colonnade

V. follow in a series, form a series, fall in, arrange in a series, collate, string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate

Adj. continuous, continued, consecutive, progressive, gradual, serial, successive, immediate, unbroken, entire, linear, in a line, in a row, uninterrupted, unintermitting, unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence) 604a, perennial, evergreen, constant

Adv. continuously, seriatim, in a line, in succession, in turn, running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch, in file, in column, in single file, in indian file

Number Roget’s Thesaurus §84

N. number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, # integer, counter, round number, formula, function, series, sum, difference, complement, subtrahend, product, multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator, coefficient, multiple, dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction, rational number, surd, irrational number, transcendental number, mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate, numerator, denominator, decimal, circulating decimal, repetend, common measure, aliquot part, prime number, prime, relative prime, prime factor, prime pair, reciprocal, totient, binary number, octal number, hexadecimal number, permutation, combination, variation, election, ratio, proportion, comparison, progression, arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression, percentage, permilage, figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers, power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm, modulus, base, differential, integral, fluxion, fluent

Adj. numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable, proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential, fluxional, integral, totitive, positive, negative, rational, irrational, surd, radical, real, complex, imaginary, finite, infinite, impossible

Adv. numerically, modulo

Progression Roget’s Thesaurus §282

N. progress, progression, progressiveness, advancing, advance, advancement, ongoing, flood, tide, headway, march, rise, improvement

V. advance, proceed, progress, get on, get along, get over the ground, gain ground, forge ahead, jog on, rub on, wag on, go with the stream, keep one's course, hold on one's course, go on, move on, come one, get on, pass on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward, pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press ahead, make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way, force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way, make progress, make head, make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides, go ahead, shoot ahead, distance, make up leeway

Adj. advancing, progressive, profluent, advanced

Adv. forward, onward, forth, on, ahead, under way, en route for, on one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to, in progress, in mid progress, in transitu

Phr. vestigia nulla retrorsum, "westward the course of empire takes its way"