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progression

/pɹəˈɡɹɛʃən/ noun C1
  1. The act of moving from one thing to another. (countable, uncountable) · Make a natural progression from player to coach
  2. The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward. (countable, uncountable)
  3. A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant. (countable, uncountable)
  4. Development, increase, evolution. (countable, uncountable)
  5. A chord progression. (countable)
  6. The process of making an exercise more strenuous by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed. (countable, uncountable)

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Visionary artists took the traditional twelve-bar blues progression and injected it with unprecedented speed and youthful enthusiasm.
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