Definition of gradual

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Gradual (n.) A series of steps.

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Shoaling :: Shoaling (a.) Becoming shallow gradually.
Slow :: Slow (superl.) Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.
Development :: Development (n.) The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state..
Incurved :: Incurved (a.) Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals..
Instill :: Instill (v. t.) To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed..
Fission :: Fission (n.) A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division..
Alterative :: Alterative (n.) A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations..
Encroacher :: Encroacher (n.) One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own..
Pasteurism :: Pasteurism (n.) A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength..
Absume :: Absume (v. t.) To consume gradually; to waste away.
Rallentando :: Rallentando (a.) Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.
Drainage :: Drainage (n.) A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain..
Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce..
Smorsato :: Smorsato (a.) Growing gradually fainter and softer; dying away; morendo.
Edgingly :: Edgingly (adv.) Gradually; gingerly.
Curve :: Curve (v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right..
Crescendo :: Crescendo (n.) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.
Comminution :: Comminution (n.) Gradual diminution by the removal of small particles at a time; a lessening; a wearing away.
Declivity :: Declivity (n.) Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity..
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