Definition of gradation
gradationally
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Creating or reproducing multicolor gradations or complex effects is no problem in the digital environment, observes Bill Gardner, the president of Gardner Design in Wichita.
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For its #BeTrue collection, Nike has taken familiar shoe styles and remade them in subtle rainbow gradations.
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Give me Mahler with no end of personal touches, all sorts of tempo and dynamic gradations.
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There were also fine gradations of enslavement that allowed slaves to change their status through intermarriage and manumission.
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Reeder set about measuring minute elevation changes across the land, searching for subtle gradations and anomalies.
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The left is sometimes ridiculed for its factionalism—its thicket of nonprofit support systems, its acronym for every gradation of identity.
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So between the two there are all kinds of gradations of emotional experiences – anger, hostility, frustration, resentment, grievance, guilt, shame, depression – so relationships always mirror that.
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His critics fear that the style, improvised and inflammatory, might create substantive havoc, particularly in the realm of foreign policy, where the smallest gradations of adjective or adverb can affect real lives.
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Did You Know?
In the Boy Scouts, gradations of rank move upward from Tenderfoot to Eagle Scout. A violin or a voice can produce gradations of musical pitch too small to appear in written music. In the 18th century Jonathan Swift could even write of "the several kinds and gradations of laughter, which ladies must daily practice by the looking-glass".
Origin and Etymology of gradation
see 1grade
GRADATION Defined for English Language Learners
gradation
playDefinition of gradation for English Language Learners
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: a small difference between two points or parts that can be seen in something that changes gradually
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