march vs progression

march

noun
  • Steady forward movement or progression. 

  • A region at a frontier governed by a marquess. 

  • Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages. 

  • A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies. 

  • A political rally or parade 

  • Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music) 

  • The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand. 

verb
  • To have common borders or frontiers 

  • To make steady progress. 

  • To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does. 

  • To go to war; to make military advances. 

  • To cause someone to walk somewhere. 

progression

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

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

  • chord progression 

  • The act of moving from one thing to another. 

  • Development, increase, evolution. 

  • 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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