Progressive
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Progressive may refer to:
In business:
- Progressive Corporation, auto insurance company in the US
- Progressive Enterprises, New Zealand retail cooperative
In music:
- Progressive country, subgenre of country music started in the late 60s which preceded and led to Outlaw country
- Progressive electronic music, collection of electronic dance music genres which draw upon the use of progressive performing techniques
- Progressive metal, genre of heavy metal music which shares traits with progressive rock
- Progressive music, approach to musical composition that has been applied to several different music genres
- Progressive psytrance, style of trance music developed in the early 2000s
- Progressive rock, subgenre of rock music which arose in the late 1960s
- Progressive rock (radio format), radio station programming format that prospered in the late 1960s and 1970s
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:
- Progressive disclosure, interaction design technique often used in human computer interaction
- Progressive scan, form of video transmission which is frame-based instead of field-based
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