What does «progresivo» mean in Spanish?
- That develops or increases gradually. Advancing or progressing without pause.
Examples of use in Spanish: "movimiento progresivo", "aumentos progresivos del sueldo".
- Continuously increasing in quantity or developing without pause.
Examples of use in Spanish: "es una enfermedad que causa un deterioro progresivo del cerebro".
- Disease that evolves gradually and without pause.
Examples of use in Spanish: "Glomerulonefritis rápidamente progresiva".
"Parálisis Supranuclear Progresiva".
"Atrofia muscular progresiva espinobulbar".
"Relajación muscular progresiva de Jacobson".
- Different musical movements: progressive rock, progressive metal, progressive house.
- (música progresiva) That music that has a succession of chords, explicit or implicit. Some of the most common progressions are those based on the circle of fifths, as well as the IV - V7 - I progression, and the IIm7 - V7 - Imaj7 and its variants in a minor key, typical of classical and popular music respectively.
- (lente progresiva) A type of lens used to correct presbyopia and other refractive errors of the eyes, where the lens is progressively divided into different diopter levels (different graduations). The upper part to see at long distances and the lower part to see at short distances. It can be in the form of typical glasses or contact lenses.
- (pólvora progresiva) Also called slow gunpowder, it is the one that needs an appreciable time, although always short, to be totally converted into gases.
- (onda progresiva) That wave that propagates freely in a medium.
- (exploración progresiva o escaneo progresivo) A method of sequentially scanning the lines that make up a television picture by successively scanning one line after another on a television set; it is used to compose the picture. This system was originally known as sequential scanning when it was first employed in experimental transmissions using 30 lines in 1926. The opposite method is called interlaced.