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Grammar : Noun |
Spell : grey-dey-shuh n |
Phonetic Transcription : greɪˈdeɪ ʃən |
Definition of gradation
Origin :- 1530s, "climax," from Middle French gradation (16c.) and directly from Latin gradationem (nominative gradatio) "ascent by steps, a climax," noun of action from gradus "step, degree" (see grade). Meaning "gradual change" is from 1540s. Related: Gradational.
- noun classification, step
- There is no gradation in his giving, and none in his fall; no artistic crescendo.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- What curvature is to lines, gradation is to shades and colors.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin
- It rose with that gradation which so wears down the ardor of almost any horse.
- Extract from : « The Twins of Suffering Creek » by Ridgwell Cullum
- Gradation based on the method of presentation is more nearly possible.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- But think of gradation, even now manifest, (Tibia and Fibula).
- Extract from : « The Foundations of the Origin of Species » by Charles Darwin
- Without this just gradation, could they be Subjected, these to those, or all to thee?
- Extract from : « Essay on Man » by Alexander Pope
- There is variation everywhere, and wherever there is variation there is gradation.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Nature » by Francis Younghusband
- Now we have to note that besides variation there is gradation.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Nature » by Francis Younghusband
- Maxima of color and their gradation to white, black, and gray.
- Extract from : « A Color Notation » by Albert H. Munsell
- Hence, complex monuments, edifices of gradation and transition.
- Extract from : « Notre-Dame de Paris » by Victor Hugo
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