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Increasing in scope or severity. In medicine, a disease that is progressive is going from bad to worse.
Ãâó: www.providence.org/alaska/tchap/glossary/P.htm
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| progressive cleavage |
Sporulation in a sporangium, involving a series of cleavage planes that are produced in succession. The first result is a multinucleate protospore; more cleavages eventually result in numerous sporangiospores, each having one nucleus.
Ãâó: www.ec.upstate.edu/medtech/microb/glossary.htm
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describes a tax in which the rich pay a larger fraction of their income than the poor
Ãâó: www.wwnorton.com/stiglitzwalsh/economics/glossary....
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Characteristic of a powder that burns at a predictable rate compared to black powder, producing a relatively slow pressure build-up.
Ãâó: beasafehunter.org/HunterEd/glossary.html
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Refers to "progressive scanning," as in DTV formats 480p or 720p. A system of video scanning whereby lines of a picture are transmitted consecutively (unlike interlaced), as on computer screens.
Ãâó: www.wgcu.org/watch/hdtv_glossaryofterms.html
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