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PROGRESSION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

Synonyms:

advance; advancement; forward motion; onward motion; procession; progress; progression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("progression" is a kind of...):

motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "progression"):

push (an effort to advance)

career; life history (the general progression of your working or professional life)

march (a steady advance)

clear sailing; easy going; plain sailing (easy unobstructed progress)

leapfrog (advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors)

Derivation:

progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A movement forward

Example:

he listened for the progress of the troops

Synonyms:

advance; progress; progression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("progression" is a kind of...):

change of location; travel (a movement through space that changes the location of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "progression"):

head; headway (forward movement)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A series with a definite pattern of advance

Synonyms:

patterned advance; progression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("progression" is a kind of...):

series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "progression"):

arithmetic progression ((mathematics) a progression in which a constant is added to each term in order to obtain the next term)

geometric progression ((mathematics) a progression in which each term is multiplied by a constant in order to obtain the next term)

harmonic progression ((mathematics) a progression of terms whose reciprocals form an arithmetic progression)

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 Context examples: 

The STAM/AMSH complex may signal MYC induction and cell cycle progression downstream of JAK3 and JAK2 after IL2 or GMCSF stimulation, respectively.

(AMSH Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in transcriptional repression, apoptosis regulation and cell cycle progression.

(B-Cell Lymphoma 6 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes B melanoma antigen 1 protein, may be involved in melanoma progression.

(BAGE wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

CXCLs are small cytokines in the CXC chemokine family that are overexpressed in certain cancers; CXCL-mediated signaling plays a key role in angiogenesis and tumor progression.

(Naphthalimide Analogue UNBS5162, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes neuroblastoma suppressor of tumorigenicity 1 protein, plays a role in the prevention of progression through cell cycle.

(NBL1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase NEDD4 protein, may be involved in viral replication progression.

(NEDD4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes NEDD8 protein, is involved in the regulation of cell cycle progression, protein ubiquitination and protein catabolism.

(NEDD8 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in cell cycle progression and apoptosis.

(MYC Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a regulatory role in cell cycle progression.

(MYBL2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein may be involved in tumor progression.

(Melanoma-Associated Antigen 10, NCI Thesaurus)