Progressive

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Progressive may refer to:

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In music:

In politics:

  • A person, group or idea that favors or implements social reform; see progressivism
  • Progressive Era, period of reform in the United States which lasted from the 1890s through the 1920s
  • Progressive Party, name of several different active and inactive political parties across the world
  • Progressive tax, tax imposed so that the tax rate increases as the amount to which the rate is applied increases
  • The Progressive, left-wing monthly magazine

In religion:

  • Progressive creationism, form of Old Earth creationism that accepts that new species have appeared successively over earth's long history
  • Progressive Judaism, umbrella term for all strands of Judaism which do not view halakha as having normative status
  • Progressive revelation, core teaching of the Bahá'í Faith that flows from central teachings of the religion

In technology:

In other fields:

  • Progressive aspect, grammatical aspect that expresses incomplete action in progress at a specific time
  • Progressive chess, chess variant in which players play progressively longer series of moves
  • Progressive function, function in mathematics
  • Progressive jackpot, jackpot for a gaming machine where the value of the jackpot increases a small amount for every game played
  • Progressive lenses, corrective lenses used in eyeglasses to correct presbyopia and other disorders of accommodation
  • Progressive logic, attempt to describe the logic of progressive moral values
  • Progressive shifting, technique for changing gears commonly practiced by drivers of semi-trailer trucks
  • Progressive stamping, metalworking method that can encompass punching, coining, and bending metal raw material

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