Gradation Definition

grā-dāshən
gradations
noun
gradations
A gradual change by steps or stages from one condition, quality, etc. to another.
Webster's New World
The act or process of forming or arranging in grades, stages, or steps.
Webster's New World
A step, stage, or degree in a graded series; transitional stage.
The many gradations between good and bad.
Webster's New World
A gradual or barely perceptible change from one tone or shade, as of color, to another.
American Heritage
The process of wearing away high areas of land by erosion and building up low areas by deposition.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To form with gradations.
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Other Word Forms of Gradation

Noun

Singular:
gradation
Plural:
gradations

Origin of Gradation

  • Latin gradātiō gradātiōn- from gradus step grade

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Gradation Sentence Examples

  • The physical properties of the alcohols exhibit a gradation with the increase of molecular weight.

  • The meaning of this singular contrast between the two animals may be that we have here an instance of an interesting gradation in evolution.

  • Actually not even in the most regular of feudal countries, like England or Germany, was there any fixed gradation of rank, titles or size.

  • The secondary septa show a regular gradation in size, and, assuming that the smallest were the most recently formed, it will be noticed that in the chief quadrants the youngest septa lie nearest to the main septum; in the other quadrants the youngest septa lie nearest to the alar septa.

  • He prepares the way, too, for a doctrine of evolution by his monistic idea of the substantial similarity of all things, inorganic and organic, bodily and spiritual, and still more by his conception of a perfect gradation of existence from the lowest " inanimate " objects, whose essential activity is confused representation, up to the highest organized beingman - with his clear intelligence.'

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Words Starting With

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NONION

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