Progressive
Encyclopedia
Progressive is an adjectival form of progress and may refer to:
Politics
- ProgressivismProgressivismProgressivism is an umbrella term for a political ideology advocating or favoring social, political, and economic reform or changes. Progressivism is often viewed by some conservatives, constitutionalists, and libertarians to be in opposition to conservative or reactionary ideologies.The...
, a political ideology - Progressive EraProgressive EraThe Progressive Era in the United States was a period of social activism and political reform that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. One main goal of the Progressive movement was purification of government, as Progressives tried to eliminate corruption by exposing and undercutting political...
, a period of reform in the United States (ca. 1890 - 1930) - Progressive Party, any of several political parties
- Progressive taxProgressive taxA progressive tax is a tax by which the tax rate increases as the taxable base amount increases. "Progressive" describes a distribution effect on income or expenditure, referring to the way the rate progresses from low to high, where the average tax rate is less than the marginal tax rate...
, a type of tax rate structure - The ProgressiveThe ProgressiveThe Progressive is an American monthly magazine of politics, culture and progressivism with a pronounced liberal perspective on some issues. Known for its pacifism, it has strongly opposed military interventions, such as the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The magazine also devotes much coverage...
, a left-wing magazine - Congressional Progressive CaucusCongressional Progressive CaucusThe Congressional Progressive Caucus is the largest caucus within the Democratic caucus in the United States Congress with 83 declared members, and works to advance progressive issues and positions....
, members within the Democratic Party in the United States Congress dedicated to the advancment of progressive issues and positions
Business
- Progressive CorporationProgressive CorporationThe Progressive Corporation , known as the Progressive Casualty Insurance Company through its subsidiaries, provides personal automobile insurance, and other specialty property-casualty insurance and related services in the United States....
, a US insurance company - Progressive EnterprisesProgressive EnterprisesProgressive Enterprises Limited is an Australian owned company operating in New Zealand, and a subsidiary of the Australian retail group Woolworths Limited....
, a New Zealand retail cooperative
Music
- Progressive music (disambiguation), an approach to musical composition
- Progressive rockProgressive rockProgressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
, a subgenre of rock music - Progressive metalProgressive metalProgressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
, a genre of heavy metal music
- Progressive rock
- Progressive countryProgressive countryProgressive country is a subgenre of Texas country music started in the early 1970s in Austin, Texas. The term was coined by programmers at Austin's KOKE-FM in 1972 as a way to differentiate the style of country music in Austin from that being made in Nashville...
, a subgenre of country music - Progressive electronic musicProgressive electronic musicIn electronic dance music the term progressive is often used to denote a novel stylistic development within a specific genre of dance music. According to the DJ and producer Carl Craig, the term "progressive" was used in Detroit in the early 80s in reference to Italo Disco...
, a collection of electronic dance music genres - Progressive psytrance, a style of trance music
- Progressive rock (radio format)Progressive rock (radio format)Progressive rock is a radio station programming format that prospered in the late 1960s and 1970s, in which the disc jockeys are given wide latitude in what they may play, similar to the freeform format but with the proviso that some kind of rock music is almost always what is played...
, a radio station programming format - Progressive (album), a demo by the band HaggardHaggard (band)Haggard is a German symphonic metal musical group founded in 1991. The group combines classical music and early music with doom metal.-Background:...
Religion
- Progressive creationismProgressive creationismProgressive creationism is the religious belief that God created new forms of life gradually, over a period of hundreds of millions of years. As a form of Old Earth creationism, it accepts mainstream geological and cosmological estimates for the age of the Earth, but posits that the new "kinds" of...
, a form of Old Earth creationism - Progressive JudaismProgressive JudaismProgressive Judaism , is an umbrella term used by strands of Judaism which affiliate to the World Union for Progressive Judaism. They embrace pluralism, modernity, equality and social justice as core values and believe that such values are consistent with a committed Jewish life...
, a term for strands of Judaism which do not view halakha as normative - Progressive revelation (Bahá'í), a core teaching of Bahá'í that suggests that religious truth is revealed by God progressively and cyclically over time
- Progressive revelation (Christian)Progressive revelation (Christian)Progressive revelation in Christianity is the concept that the sections of the Bible that were written later contain a fuller revelation of God compared to the earlier sections. For instance, the theologian Charles Hodge wrote,...
, the concept that the sections of the Bible written later contain a fuller revelation of God - Progressive ChristianityProgressive ChristianityProgressive Christianity is the name given to a movement within contemporary Christianity characterized by willingness to question tradition, acceptance of human diversity with a strong emphasis on social justice or care for the poor and the oppressed and environmental stewardship of the Earth...
, a movement within contemporary Protestantism - Liberal movements within IslamLiberal movements within IslamProgressive Muslims have produced a considerable body of liberal thought within Islam or "progressive Islam" ; but some consider progressive Islam and liberal Islam as two distinct movements)...
, or "progressive Islam", a modern liberal interpretation of Islam
Technology
- Progressive disclosureProgressive disclosureProgressive disclosure is an interaction design technique often used in human computer interaction to help maintain the focus of a user's attention by reducing clutter, confusion, and cognitive workload. This improves usability by presenting only the minimum data required for the task at hand...
, a technique used in human computer interaction - Progressive scanProgressive scanProgressive scanning is a way of displaying, storing, or transmitting moving images in which all the lines of each frame are drawn in sequence...
, a form of video transmission
Other fields
- Progressive illnessProgressive illnessThe term progressive illness describes the course of an illness that gradually progresses and changes mode, generally to the worse. In contrast, non-progressive or chronic illnesses are relatively constant.-Examples:...
, an illness that gradually progresses - Continuous and progressive aspectsContinuous and progressive aspectsThe continuous and progressive aspects are grammatical aspects that express incomplete action in progress at a specific time: they are non-habitual, imperfective aspects. It is a verb category with two principal meaning components: duration and incompletion...
, a grammatical aspect that expresses incomplete action - Progressive chessProgressive chessProgressive chess is a chess variant in which players, rather than just making one move per turn, play progressively longer series of moves. The game starts with white making one move, then black makes two consecutive moves, white replies with three, black makes four and so on...
, a chess variant - Progressive education, which emphasizes a "hands-on" approach to learning
- Progressive function, function in mathematics
- Progressive jackpotProgressive jackpotA progressive jackpot is a jackpot for a gaming machine where the value of the jackpot increases a small amount for every game played...
, a jackpot where the value increases for every game played - Progressive lenses, a type of corrective eyeglass lenses
- Progressive shiftingProgressive shiftingProgressive shifting is a technique for changing gears commonly practiced by drivers of semi-trailer trucks. It is meant to reduce fuel consumption — something very important for drivers who travel several hundred miles each day....
, technique for changing gears in trucks - Progressive stampingProgressive stampingProgressive stamping is a metalworking method that can encompass punching, coining, bending and several other ways of modifying metal raw material, combined with an automatic feeding system....
, a metalworking technique
See also
- Progress (disambiguation)
- Progression (disambiguation)
- Progressive Alliance (disambiguation)
- Progressive Party (disambiguation)
- Progressive Unionist (disambiguation)
- Progressivism (disambiguation)Progressivism (disambiguation)Progressivism is a broad political movement.Progressivism may also refer to:* Progressive Party , multiple political organizations...