PROGRESSIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does progressively mean? 

• PROGRESSIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb PROGRESSIVELY has 1 sense:

1. advancing in amount or intensity

  Familiarity information: PROGRESSIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROGRESSIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Advancing in amount or intensity

Synonyms:

increasingly; more and more; progressively

Context example:

she became increasingly depressed

Pertainym:

progressive (gradually advancing in extent)

 Context examples 

It extends beyond the original boundaries of the wound and may enlarge progressively.

(Keloid, NCI Thesaurus)

Thousands of randomly created programs are progressively evolved over time using an evolutionary search based on the principle of survival of the fittest.

(Genetic Programming, NCI Thesaurus)

Becoming progressively lower, growing weaker, or going from better to worse.

(Declining, NCI Thesaurus)

I would rather have an inferior degree of beauty, of my own choice, and acquired progressively.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The beta-oxidation of fatty acids in mitochondria progressively shortens fatty acids two-carbons at a time as acetyl-CoA units are removed with each round of the cycle.

(Oxidation of Odd-Numbered Chain Fatty Acid Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Secretion of hormonal and/or other substances into intercellular spaces progressively forms follicular cavities.

(Parathyroid Gland Follicle, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients present with a progressively enlarging and painless mass.

(Parotid Gland Sebaceous Lymphadenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The third was two weeks of progressively increasing levels of electrical stimulation followed by a week of constant intensity stimulation.

(Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells, National Institutes of Health)

In each cycle, a fatty acid is progressively shortened by two carbons as it is oxidized and its energy captured by the reduced energy carriers NADH and FADH2.

(Beta-Oxidation of Fatty Acids Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

After formation, nascent phagosomes progressively acquire digestive characteristics.

(Phagocytosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)