Usually means: Progressive change in stages, levels.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word gradation:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. gradation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gradation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gradation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gradation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gradation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gradation, gradation: Wordnik
  7. gradation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gradation: Wiktionary
  9. gradation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gradation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gradation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gradation: Dictionary.com
  13. gradation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gradation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gradation (album), Gradation (art), Gradation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gradation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gradation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gradation: Rhymezone
  19. Gradation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gradation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gradation: Free Dictionary
  22. gradation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gradation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gradation: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. gradation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gradation: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Gradation: Nikonians Photo Glossary

(Note: See gradational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
noun:  A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another.
noun:  The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
noun:  Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
noun:  (countable) A calibration marking.
noun:  (music) A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
noun:  (music) A diatonic succession of chords.
noun:  (phonetics) Ablaut.
verb:  (transitive) To form with gradations.

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