progression has definitions from the field of mathematics
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[ noun ] (mathematics) a series with a definite pattern of advance

Used in print

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

When consciousness deserts the sleeping body and the wakeful world , it continues in the myriad progressions of the ever-present past and future , in a life as vibrant and real as the one left when the body tired and required sleep .

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[ noun ] a movement forward

Synonyms

advance progress

Examples

"he listened for the progress of the troops"

Used in print

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

that the dream was a reality on the infinite progressions of universal , gradient frequencies , across which the modern professor and the priest of ancient Nippur met ?

3
[ noun ] the act of moving forward toward a goal

Used in print

(J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)

X-ray_films of the vertebral_column showed progression of the demineralization .

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