Gradation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A series of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
  • n. A degree or stage in such a progression.
  • n. A passing by barely perceptible degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another. See Synonyms at nuance.
  • n. The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
  • n. Linguistics See ablaut.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
  • n. A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another. See Synonyms at nuance.
  • n. The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
  • n. A calibration marking.
  • n. A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
  • n. Apophony.
  • v. To form with gradations.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks.
  • n. The act or process of bringing to a certain grade.
  • n. Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
  • n. A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.
  • n. A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
  • v. To form with gradations.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of grading, or the state of being graded; orderly or continuous arrangement or succession; serial order or sequence according to size, intensity, quality, rank, attainment, or the like.
  • n. Hence Progress from one degree or state to another; a regular advance from step to step: as, the gradations of an argument.
  • n. A degree or relative position in any order or series.
  • n. In the fine arts, the regular arrangement or subordination to one another of the parts of any work of art, so as to produce the best effect, as, in painting, the gradual blending of one tint into another.
  • n. In music, a diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
  • n. In philology, the relation of the radical vowels in a series of verbal forms or derivatives derived with variation from the same verbal root, as sing, sang, sung: same as ablaut.
  • n. In geology, the process of producing an even slope, by agencies of erosion and transportation, on which the supply and removal of rock-waste or detrital material are about balanced.
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  • n. relative position in a graded series
  • n. a degree of ablaut
  • n. the act of arranging in grades
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ablaut   
    Cross Reference
    gradation plain    gradation of color    graduation   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    series    degree    rank   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    progression    nuance    subdivision    diversity    modification   
     
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