halt vs progression

halt

noun
  • A cessation, either temporary or permanent. 

  • A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom. 

verb
  • To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. 

  • To bring to a stop. 

  • To limp; move with a limping gait. 

  • To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. 

  • To falter. 

  • To stop marching. 

  • To stop either temporarily or permanently. 

  • To cause to discontinue. 

  • To waver. 

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 halt and progression occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )