gradation 的定义
- any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- a stage, degree, or grade in such a series.
- the passing of one tint or shade of color to another, or one surface to another, by very small degrees, as in painting or sculpture.
- the act of grading.
- ablaut.
- Geology. the leveling of a land surface, resulting from the concerted action of erosion and deposition.
gradation 近义词
classification, step
更多gradation例句
- Exercise could easily exist on a continuum with infinite gradations of difficulty.
- Compared with many other orders, the primates were rather easy to arrange on their evolutionary tree, thanks to well-preserved fossils, as well as relatively small yet well-defined gradations between living forms.
- But within that group there is a great deal of gradation—much of it tied to specific timelines within pregnancy.
- Now, national possessions must be estimated by the same gradation that we have applied to individual possessions.
- It is something of the shape of a mitre, and forms a beautiful gradation of ascent towards the summit of faade.
- Why should we sacrifice this clear and useful gradation: unwell, very unwell, ill, very ill?
- The merest glance at society round us shows an endless gradation of varied service.
- You appear to imply that development and gradation in organs and functions are opposed to that conception, which they are not.