Gradation
noun
The process of changing by degrees or steps.
There is a gradual gradation from dark to light in this painting.
Often appears as...
- gradual gradation
- gradation of color
noun
A level in a system or scale of things.
He rose through the gradations of the company from cleaner to CEO.
Often appears as...
- gradations of wealth
- social gradation
noun
The arrangement or classification of something in stages or degrees.
Fossils help to reveal the gradation and evolution of different species over time.
Often appears as...
- gradation of species
- gradation in nature
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Academic
noun
The process of changing by degrees or steps.
There is a gradual gradation from dark to light in this painting.
Often appears as...
- gradual gradation
- gradation of color
noun
A level in a system or scale of things.
He rose through the gradations of the company from cleaner to CEO.
Often appears as...
- gradations of wealth
- social gradation
noun
The arrangement or classification of something in stages or degrees.
Fossils help to reveal the gradation and evolution of different species over time.
Often appears as...
- gradation of species
- gradation in nature
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Transition
Used to describe changes in visual elements like colors, lighting, or patterns.
The wallpaper shows gradation from peach to rose.
Pro Tip 2/3Step by Step
Indicates a gradual, stepwise change in a process or system, often leading to a specific result.
Learning a new language involves gradation in skills.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Instant
Implies that change doesn’t happen suddenly but requires time.
There's a clear gradation in his writing as he improves.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Transition
Used to describe changes in visual elements like colors, lighting, or patterns.
The wallpaper shows gradation from peach to rose.
Pro Tip 2/3Step by Step
Indicates a gradual, stepwise change in a process or system, often leading to a specific result.
Learning a new language involves gradation in skills.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Instant
Implies that change doesn’t happen suddenly but requires time.
There's a clear gradation in his writing as he improves.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Transition
Used to describe changes in visual elements like colors, lighting, or patterns.
The wallpaper shows gradation from peach to rose.
Pro Tip 2/3Step by Step
Indicates a gradual, stepwise change in a process or system, often leading to a specific result.
Learning a new language involves gradation in skills.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Instant
Implies that change doesn’t happen suddenly but requires time.
There's a clear gradation in his writing as he improves.
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Video examples
David Anderson: Your...
such as arousal, and see if we can identify any fly behaviors that might exhibit some of those properties. So three important ones that I can think of are persistence, gradations in intensity, and valence.
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Your brain is more than...
like states such as arousal and see if we can identify any fly behaviors that might exhibit some of those properties so three important ones that I can think of our persistence gradations and
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David Anderson: Your...
such as arousal, and see if we can identify any fly behaviors that might exhibit some of those properties. So three important ones that I can think of are persistence, gradations in intensity, and valence.
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Your brain is more than...
like states such as arousal and see if we can identify any fly behaviors that might exhibit some of those properties so three important ones that I can think of our persistence gradations and
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Quote examples
Anne Carson
Canadian Poet
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
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Sam Kean
American Writer
Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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Toyin Odutola
Nigerian Artist
It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.
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John Saxon
American Actor
There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.
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Stan Brakhage
American Director
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.
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Rahm Emanuel
American Politician
I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
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William Hazlitt
English Critic
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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Franz Kafka
Novelist
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Julianne Moore
American Actress
We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art.
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Anne Carson
Canadian Poet
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
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Sam Kean
American Writer
Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
Quote examples
Toyin Odutola
Nigerian Artist
It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.
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John Saxon
American Actor
There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.
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Stan Brakhage
American Director
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.
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Rahm Emanuel
American Politician
I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
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William Hazlitt
English Critic
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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Franz Kafka
Novelist
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Julianne Moore
American Actress
We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art.
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