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PROGRESSIVELY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Advancing in amount or intensity

Example:

she became increasingly depressed

Synonyms:

increasingly; more and more; progressively

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

progressive (gradually advancing in extent)

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 Context examples: 

Amino-propyl groups from decarboxylated adoMet are progressively newed to putrescine to produce first spermidine and then spermine.

(Biosynthesis of Spermidine and Spermine Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Transplantable colon tumor PROb grows progressively and metastasizes, whereas REGb grows slowly and is then rejected (Blottiere et al 1992a,b).

(BDIX, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs of her disease had appeared in infancy and progressively worsened.

(Gene linked to rare inflammatory disease in children, NIH)

Researchers have discovered that blood vessels within bone marrow may progressively turn into bones with advancing age and run around the bloodstream.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Curiosity Mars rover will continue to climb to progressively higher and younger strata on Mount Sharp, investigating how long the ancient, water-rich environments found so far persisted as Mars dried out.

(NASA Weighs Use of Rover to Image Potential Mars Water Sites, NASA)

Over time, the mice with disrupted sleep developed progressively larger arterial lesions compared to the other mice.

(Study helps solve mystery of how sleep protects against heart disease, National Institutes of Health)

A disorder characterized by a dysrhythmia with a progressively lengthening PR interval prior to the blocking of an atrial impulse.

(AV Block Second Degree Mobitz Type I, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A disorder characterized by an electrocardiographic finding of intermittent failure of atrial electrical impulse conduction to the ventricles, characterized by a progressively lengthening PR interval prior to the block of an atrial impulse.

(AV Block Second Degree Mobitz Type I, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

In the omega oxidation pathway, this carbon is progressively oxidized first to an alcohol and then to a carboxylic acid, creating a molecule with a carboxylic acid on both ends.

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