Gradation

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A series of gradual, successive stages or degrees.
  • noun. One of these stages or degrees.
  • noun. A gradual or barely perceptible change from one tone or shade, as of color, to another. synonym: nuance.
  • noun. The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
  • noun. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Hence Progress from one degree or state to another; a regular advance from step to step: as, the gradations of an argument.
  • noun. A degree or relative position in any order or series.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. In music, a diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To form with gradations.
  • noun. The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks.
  • noun. The act or process of bringing to a certain grade.
  • noun. Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
  • noun. A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.
  • noun. A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
  • noun. A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another. See Synonyms at nuance.
  • noun. The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
  • noun. A calibration marking.
  • noun. A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
  • noun. Apophony.
  • verb. To form with gradations.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. relative position in a graded series
  • noun. a degree of ablaut
  • noun. the act of arranging in grades