Gradation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GRADATION in dictionary:

VERB:
• To form with gradations.
NOUN:
• progress from one degree or state to another
• a scale or series of successive changes, stages, or degrees
• an individual stage within a succession of changes, stages, or degrees
• a minute variation in shade, tone, or colour
• (stage in) a series of degrees or steps
• The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.
• The act or process of bringing to a certain grade.
• Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
• A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.
• A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
• relative position in a graded series
• a degree of ablaut
• the act of arranging in grades
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a series forming successive stages; a step or place in an ordered scale

Words related to GRADATION

gradational13 gradationally18 gradationed14 gradations12

Words that contain GRADATION

gradations12 aggradation14 degradation14 gradational13 gradationed14 upgradation15 aggradations15 degradations15 disgradation15 progradation16 upgradations16 disgradations16 gradationally18 progradations17 aggradational16 biodegradation19 intergradation16 retrogradation16 biodegradations20 intergradations17 retrogradations17 intergradationa17 intergradational18

How to use GRADATION in a sentence

• Complaints were carried in successive gradation from the government to the council, and from the council to the king.
• In the Roman legion there was nevertheless a regular gradation of rank, although there were but few distinct offices.
• One might, very probably, trace a regular gradation between these two extremes.
• There must be no pause, no interval, no repose, no gradation.
• In the pursuit of these sciences, it will be proper to proceed with the same gradation and caution as in geometry.
• For him a thing was absolutely right or absolutely wrong, and between the two there was no gradation.
• Turner sees no further occasion for her, instead of melting by fine expanse and exquisite gradation into genuine distance, as Nature does in Claude and in Nature.
• There remains only the implied assertion that, if promotion had gone by old gradation, Iago, as the senior, would have been preferred.
• Between not knowing them at all, and knowing them well enough to shake hands at first sight, there is no ceremonious interval or formal gradation whatever.
• In the gradation of humans he was but a merchant of the caste of the third dimension in the great quartette of castes.
• We should also contend for an access to their possessions in America, according to the gradation in the 2nd article of our instructions, of May the 7th, 1784.
• Also this study will be useful to you, in showing how entirely effects of light depend on delineation, and gradation of spaces, and not on methods of shading.
• The march of culture in those days was slow, and the gradation from the use of one material to another very prolonged, often reaching into centuries.
• On the contrary, Federal gradation, though in part binary, gives one coin for each of the first two divisions only.
• Its inauguration must not be compared with that of French gradation, which, though theoretically perfect, is practically absurd.
• Lord John Russell would have formed his ministry on the basis of a complete free trade in corn, to be established at once, without gradation or delay.
• The landlady, on the other hand, had no idea of any other gradation except that of pounds, shillings, and pence.
• Every gradation of feature has developed before her eyes.
• We can, however, trace a gradation in the variation of form.
• Next to a Christian, a Dutch Jew stood lowest in the gradation of potential sons-in-law.
• Amongst existing Vertebrata, we find but a small amount of gradation in the structure of the eye, and from fossil species we can learn nothing on this head.
• Let us look to the great principle of gradation, and see whether Nature does not reveal to us her method of work.
• The south side was a gradation of buildings, from the two-story brick grocery on the west corner to the grandest of the stone mansions on the east.
• In a market of this kind we, of course, see every gradation of colour, from light brown to the deepest black.
• He passed and received the necessary compliments first, endured a discussion of local trade prospects, and then by an easy gradation led up to the powers of the local Kady.
• A fine was the lowest degree in the gradation of punishment.
• In another climate the mountains would present a gradation of vegetable growth, from the tropical through the temperate to the northern zone.
• The method of teaching in the first reader was to be adjusted to a phonic-word method, and the gradation was to be improved.
• There was for him no gradation by which he passed slowly upwards from detachment to union.
• Where this caste was distinguished by master and slave, the distinction was most marked, because there was no intermediate gradation.

Similar words containing GRADA without suffix tion

gradate9 sagrada9 gradable12 gradated11 gradates10 gradatim12 gradables13 gradating12 gradatory14 degradable15 gradations12 upgradable16 aggradation14 degradation14 degradative17 gradability18 gradational13 gradationed14 gradatories13 upgradation15 aggradations15 degradations15 disgradation15 gradableness16 progradation16 upgradations16 biodegradable20 degradability21 disgradations16 gradabilities17 gradationally18 nondegradable18 progradations17 upgradability22 aggradational16 biodegradation19 gradablenesses18 intergradation16 retrogradation16 biodegradables21 nondegradables19 biodegradations20 degradabilities20 intergradations17 photodegradable25 retrogradations17 upgradabilities21 nonbiodegradabl22 biodegradabilit22 intergradationa17 intergradational18 biodegradability26 nonbiodegradable23 nonbiodegradables24 biodegradabilities25

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. We do not cooperate with the owners of this trademark. All trademark rights are owned by their owners and are not relevant to the web site "scrabble-word.com". This site is intended for entertainment and training. We try to make a useful tool for all fans of SCRABBLE. "Scrabble Word" is the best method to improve your skills in the game.