Gradation

Word GRADATION
Character 9
Hyphenation gra da tion
Pronunciations /ɡɹəˈdeɪʃən/

Definitions and meanings of "Gradation"

What do we mean by gradation?

A series of gradual, successive stages or degrees. noun

One of these stages or degrees. noun

A gradual or barely perceptible change from one tone or shade, as of color, to another. synonym: nuance. noun

The act of gradating or arranging in grades. noun

In geology, the process of producing an even slope, by agencies of erosion and transportation, on which the supply and removal of rock-waste or detrital material are about balanced. noun

The act of grading, or the state of being graded; orderly or continuous arrangement or succession; serial order or sequence according to size, intensity, quality, rank, attainment, or the like. noun

Hence Progress from one degree or state to another; a regular advance from step to step: as, the gradations of an argument. noun

A degree or relative position in any order or series. noun

In the fine arts, the regular arrangement or subordination to one another of the parts of any work of art, so as to produce the best effect, as, in painting, the gradual blending of one tint into another. noun

In music, a diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords. noun

In philology, the relation of the radical vowels in a series of verbal forms or derivatives derived with variation from the same verbal root, as sing, sang, sung: same as ablaut. noun

To form with gradations. transitive verb

The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks. noun

The act or process of bringing to a certain grade. noun

Any degree or relative position in an order or series. noun

A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing. noun

A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords. noun

A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression. noun

A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.

A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another.

The act of gradating or arranging in grades.

Any degree or relative position in an order or series.

A calibration marking.

A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.

A diatonic succession of chords.

Apophony.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Gradation

The word "gradation" in example sentences

I. i.37 (361,8) And not by old gradation] [W: Not (as of old)] _Old gradation_, is _gradation_ established by_ancient_ practice. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

[Page 343] temporaneous one of the recognition of tactile stimuli in gradation, prepares for writing. ❋ Anne E. Montessori George (1912)

In another "House," I have seen the children take the entire box, empty the sixty-four colour-tablets upon the table and after carefully mixing them, rapidly collect them into groups and arrange them in gradation, constructing a species of little carpet of delicately coloured and intermingling tints. ❋ Anne E. Montessori George (1912)

With the third solid inset, the directress, when she has arranged the pieces in gradation, calls the child's attention to the first one, saying, "This is the largest," and to the last one, saying, "This is the smallest." ❋ Anne E. Montessori George (1912)

But is there no gradation from the man of strong and sound intellect, down to the idiot? ❋ Unknown (1796)

She showed that the gradation is the same when the Slovenes say Ni vreden pol kurca! ❋ Unknown (2005)

The gradation from the style of freedom and simplicity, to that of form and servitude, may be traced in the Epistles of Cicero, of Pliny, and of Symmachus.] 74 The emperor Gratian, after confirming a law of precedency published by Valentinian, the father of his Divinity, thus continues: Siquis igitur indebitum sibi locum usurpaverit, nulla se ignoratione defendat; sitque plane sacrilegii reus, qui divina praecepta neglexerit. ❋ Unknown (1206)

As a rule, no colour exists in nature without gradation, which is to colours what curvature is to lines. ❋ George Field (N/A)

This is a reversal of the more usual notion, but the idea of gradation is equally present. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Von Baer also held that there are four distinct types of structure; he, too, combated the idea of gradation within the limits of the type. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Following this, we place before the child the eight gradations of two different colours (red and blue); he is shown how to separate the groups and then arrange each group in gradation. ❋ Anne E. Montessori George (1912)

Thus, we see, there is among the Russian Nonconformist sects what may be called a gradation of fanaticism, in which is reflected the history of the Great Schism. ❋ Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1880)

We know no higher or more energetic life than our own; but there seems to me this great good in the idea of gradation of life -- it admits the idea of a life above us, in other creatures, as much nobler than ours, as ours is nobler than that of the dust. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

German shows the absence of that delicate perception, that sensibility to gradation, which is the essence of tact and taste, and the necessary concomitant of wit. ❋ George Eliot (1849)

The gradation is a nice feature, allowing the user to work their way up to the largest bead-or, in the case of more timid asses, progress to whatever level you may be comfortable with, and just leave it at that. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bauckham's assertion on numerous occasions that there was no "gradation" of divinity from God on the top down through an uninterrupted hierarchy is never justified, and once again the irony is that the question of whether there was an absolute difference in essence separating God from all other existing things seems to be an ontological one. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

Is there not some kind of gradation for his offense versus say, those of our other elected officials? ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the world of Russian officialdom professing the dogma of "gradation" and "caution" in the question of ❋ I. [Translator] Friedlaender (1900)

Three of them, showing themselves as hostile (Neptune), as helpful (Ino Leucothea), as saving (the River-God); all three too seem in a kind of gradation, from the vast total sea, through one of its phases, to the small stream pouring into the sea from the land. ❋ Denton Jaques Snider (1883)

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