• ttbc Dutch: progressief
• ttbc Scottish Gaelic: adhartach

Noun

progressive

1. A person who actively favors or strives for progress toward better conditions, as in society or government.

Translations

• Kurdish:
• Russian: прогрессивный человек, прогрессивный деятель, сторонник прогресса (1), член прогрессивной партии (2)

Italian

Adjective

progressive

1. Feminine plural form of progressivo

Progressive is an adjectival form of progress and may refer to:

In politics:

• Progressivism, a political movement/ideology with origins in early 20th century America
• 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 business:

• Progressive Corporation, auto insurance company in the US
• Progressive Enterprises, New Zealand retail cooperative

In music:

• Progressive music, approach to musical composition that has been applied to several different music genres
  • Progressive rock, subgenre of rock music which arose in the late 1960s
  • Progressive metal, genre of heavy metal music which shares traits with progressive rock
• 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 psytrance, style of trance music developed in the early 2000s
• Progressive rock (radio format), radio station programming format that prospered in the late 1960s and 1970s
• Progressive (album), a demo released by the German symphonic metal band Haggard in 1994

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
• Progressive Christianity, a movement within contemporary Protestantism characterized by willingness to question tradition, acceptance of human diversity, and strong emphasis on social justice
• Progressive Islam, a modern liberal interpretation of Islam

In sports:

• Progressive Field (originally Jacobs Field), home of the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball

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 illness, an illness that gradually progresses, generally to the worse.
• 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 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

See also

• Progress
• Progression
• Progressive Alliance
• Progressive Party
• Progressive Unionist
• Progressivism

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