development vs progression

development

noun
  • The process of developing; growth, directed change. 

  • A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings. 

  • The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it. 

  • The expression of a function in the form of a series. 

  • The building of such a project. 

  • Something which has developed. 

  • The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research). 

  • The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated. 

  • The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form. 

  • The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells. 

progression

noun
  • Development, increase, evolution. 

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

  • chord progression 

  • The act of moving from one thing to another. 

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

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

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