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1progressively — UK US /prəˈgresɪvli/ US /prəˈgresɪvli/ adverb ► gradually: »Less experienced personnel assume progressively greater responsibilities as they gain knowledge and experience. »The economy has weakened progressively since the beginning of the year …
2less and less — adverb (or adjective) : to a progressively smaller size or extent watched his figure grow less and less in the dim grey light O.E.Rölvaag a world that … has been less and less governed by reason Lewis Mumford …
3less and less — phrasal to a progressively smaller size or extent …
4lens´less — lens «lehnz», noun, plural lens|es. 1. a curved piece of glass, or something like glass, that will bring closer together or send wider apart the rays of light passing through it. The lens of a camera forms images. The lenses of a telescope make… …
5France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
6Romance languages — Romance Geographic distribution: Originally Southern Europe and parts of Africa; now also Latin America, Canada, parts of Lebanon and much of Western Africa Linguistic classification: Indo European Italic …
7human development — ▪ biology Introduction the process of growth and change that takes place between birth and maturity. Human growth is far from being a simple and uniform process of becoming taller or larger. As a child (child development) gets bigger,… …
8Type II supernova — The expanding remnant of SN 1987A, a Type II P supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud. NASA image. A Type II supernova (plural: supernovae) results from the rapid collapse and violent explosion of a massive star. A star must have at least 9… …
9dating — I In geology and archaeology, the process of determining an object s or event s place within a chronological scheme. Scientists may use either relative dating, in which items are sequenced on the basis of stratigraphic clues (see stratigraphy) or …
10animal behaviour — Introduction any activity of an intact organism. A living animal behaves constantly in order to survive, and all animals must solve the same basic problems. They must, for instance, periodically replace their energy source (consume… …
