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Politics

• Progressivism
  Progressivism
  
  The term progressive has varying meanings in different countries.In some countries, the word refers to left-wing politics. For instance, in the United States, the term progressive emerged in the late 19th century into the 20th century in reference to a more general response to the vast changes brought by industrialization: an alternativ...
  , a political movement/ideology with origins in early 20th century America
• Progressive Era
  Progressive Era
  
  The Progressive Era in the United States was a period of reform which lasted from the 1890s to the 1920's.Responding to the changes brought about by industrialization,...
  , period of reform in the United States lasting from the 1890s through the 1920s
• Progressive Party
  Progressive Party
  
  Progressive Party may refer to:...
  , name of several different active and inactive political parties across the world
• Progressive tax
  Progressive tax
  
  A progressive tax is a tax by which the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases. "Progressive" describes a distribution effect on income or Consumption , referring to the way the rate progresses from low to high, where the average tax rate is less than the marginal tax rate....
  , tax imposed so that the tax rate increases as the amount to which the rate is applied increases
• The Progressive
  The Progressive
  
  The Progressive is an United States monthly magazine of politics and culture with a pronounced left-wing politics perspective. Known for its pacifism, it has strongly opposed military interventions, such as the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq in 2003....
  , left-wing monthly magazine

Business

• Progressive Corporation
  Progressive Corporation
  
  The Progressive Corporation , Progressive Casualty Insurance Company, through its subsidiaries, provides personal automobile insurance, and other specialty property-casualty insurance and related services in the United States....
  , auto insurance company in the United States
• Progressive Enterprises
  Progressive Enterprises
  
  Progressive Enterprises Limited is an Australian owned company operating in New Zealand, and a subsidiary of the Australian retail group Woolworths Limited....
  , New Zealand retail cooperative

Music

• Progressive music
  Progressive music
  
  Progressive music may refer to:*Art rock*Avant-progressive rock*Electronic art music*Experimental pop music*Jazz fusion*Neo-progressive rock...
  , approach to musical composition that has been applied to several different music genres
• Progressive rock
  Progressive rock
  
  Progressive rock is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." The term "art rock" is often used interchangeably with "progressive rock", but while there are crossovers between the two genres, they are not identical....
  , subgenre of rock music arising in the late 1960s
• Progressive metal
  Progressive metal
  
  Progressive metal is a Fusion ; a mixture of progressive rock and Heavy metal music. Progressive metal blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock....
  , genre of heavy metal music sharing traits with progressive rock
• Progressive country
  Progressive country
  
  Progressive country is a subgenre of 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....
  , subgenre of country music started in the late 60s which preceded and led to Outlaw country
• Progressive electronic music
  Progressive electronic music
  
  Progressive electronic dance music usually refers to differentiate various offshoot styles of electronic dance music from their parent styles, which include trance music, house music, breakbeat and GRP Records....
  , collection of electronic dance music genres drawing upon the use of progressive performing techniques
• Progressive psytrance, style of trance music developed in the early 2000s
• Progressive rock (radio format)
  Progressive rock (radio format)
  
  Progressive rock is a radio station Radio programming Radio 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 but with the proviso that some kind of rock music is almost always what is played....
  , radio station programming format that prospered in the late 1960s and 1970s
• Progressive (album), a demo released by the German symphonic metal band Haggard
  Haggard
  
  Haggard is a surname, and may refer to:...
   in 1994

Religion

• Progressive creationism
  Progressive creationism
  
  Progressive 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 cosmology estimates for the age of the Earth, but posits that the new "kinds" of plants and animals that have appeared successive...
  , form of Old Earth creationism that accepts that new species have appeared successively over Earth's long history
• Progressive Judaism
  Progressive Judaism
  
  Progressive 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....
  , umbrella term for all strands of Judaism which do not view halakha as having normative status
• 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....
  , the concept that the sections of the Bible
  Bible
  
  The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
   that were written later contain a fuller revelation
  Revelation
  
  Revelation is the act of revealing or disclosing, or making something obvious and clearly understood through active or passive communication with the divinity....
   of God compared to the earlier sections.
• Progressive Christianity
  Progressive Christianity
  
  Progressive Christianity is the name given to a movement within contemporary Protestant Christianity characterized by willingness to question tradition, acceptance of human diversity , strong emphasis on social justice or care for the poor and the oppressed ...
  , a movement within contemporary Protestantism characterized by willingness to question tradition, acceptance of human diversity, and strong emphasis on social justice
• Progressive Islam
  Liberal movements within Islam
  
  progressivism Muslims have produced a considerable body of liberalism within Islam . These movements share a philosophy that depends largely on ijtihad....
  , a modern liberal interpretation of Islam

Sports

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

Technology

• Progressive disclosure
  Progressive disclosure
  
  Progressive 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....
  , interaction design technique often used in human computer interaction
• Progressive scan
  Progressive scan
  
  Progressive or noninterlaced scanning is a method for displaying, storing or transmitting moving images in which all the lines of each Film frame are drawn in sequence....
  , form of video transmission which is frame-based instead of field-based

Other fields

• Progressive illness
  Progressive illness
  
  A progressive illness is an illness that gradually progresses and changes mode, generally to the worse. In contrast, non-progressive illnesses are relatively constant....
  , an illness that gradually progresses, generally to the worse.
• Progressive aspect
  Continuous and progressive aspects
  
  The continuous and progressive aspects are grammatical aspects that express incomplete action in progress at a specific time: they are non-habitual, imperfective aspect aspects....
  , grammatical aspect that expresses incomplete action in progress at a specific time
• Progressive chess
  Progressive chess
  
  Progressive 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....
  , chess variant in which players play progressively longer series of moves
• Progressive education, which emphasizes a "hands-on" approach to learning.
• Progressive function
  Progressive function
  
  In mathematics, a function f ∈ L2 is called progressive if and only if its Fourier transform is supported by positive frequencies only:...
  , function in mathematics
• Progressive jackpot
  Progressive jackpot
  
  A progressive jackpot is a jackpot for a gaming machine where the value of the jackpot increases a small amount for every game played. Normally multiple machines are "linked" together to form one large progressive jackpot that grows more quickly because multiple players are contributing to the jackpot at the same time....
  , 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
  Progressive shifting
  
  Progressive shifting is a technique for changing gears commonly practiced by drivings 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 commonly practiced by drivers of semi-trailer trucks
• Progressive stamping
  Progressive stamping
  
  Progressive 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....
  , metalworking method that can encompass punching, coining, and bending metal raw material

See also

• Progress
  Progress
  
  Progress indicates generally forward moving and may refer to:...
  
• Progression
  Progression
  
  Progression may refer to:In mathematics:* Arithmetic progression, sequence of numbers such that the difference of any two successive members of the sequence is a constant...
  
• Progressive Alliance
  Progressive Alliance
  
  Progressive Alliance may refer to:* Australian Progressive Alliance, minor liberal party in Australia* Hong Kong Progressive Alliance, political party in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China...
  
• Progressive Party
  Progressive Party
  
  Progressive Party may refer to:...
  
• Progressive Unionist
  Progressive Unionist
  
  Progressive Unionist may refer to:*Progressive Unionist Party, an Irish party*Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, a Northern Irish party*Ulster Progressive Unionist Association, an Irish political group...
  
• Progressivism
  Progressivism
  
  The term progressive has varying meanings in different countries.In some countries, the word refers to left-wing politics. For instance, in the United States, the term progressive emerged in the late 19th century into the 20th century in reference to a more general response to the vast changes brought by industrialization: an alternativ...