Definition of gradation

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Gradation (n.) Any degree or relative position in an order or series.

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Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.
Retrogradation :: Retrogradation (n.) The state of being retrograde; decline.
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement..
Gradation :: Gradation (n.) The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes..
Retrogression :: Retrogression (n.) The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation..
Adultery :: Adultery (n.) Injury; degradation; ruin.
Gradualness :: Gradualness (n.) The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.
Climax :: Climax (v. i.) Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
Helmet :: Helmet (n.) The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form..
Privation :: Privation (n.) The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation..
Gradation :: Gradation (v. t.) To form with gradations.
Remove :: Remove (n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year..
Admiral :: Admiral (n.) A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets..
Scale :: Scale (n.) Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being..
Mode :: Mode (n.) Variety; gradation; degree.
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop..
Trimorphism :: Trimorphism (n.) The coexistence among individuals of the same species of three distinct forms, not connected, as a rule, by intermediate gradations; the condition among individuals of the same species of having three different shapes or proportions of corresponding parts; -- contrasted with polymorphism, and dimorphism..
Degradement :: Degradement (n.) Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.
Stump :: Stump (n.) A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder..
Polymorphism :: Polymorphism (n.) Existence in many forms; the coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents..
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