catena vs progression

catena

noun
  • A series of related items. 

  • A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope. 

progression

noun
  • The act of moving from one thing to another. 

  • A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant. 

  • chord progression 

  • The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward. 

  • Development, increase, evolution. 

  • The making an exercise more exerting by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed. 

How often have the words catena and progression occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )