Synonyms:
gradation, graduation
Meaning: the act of arranging in grades
Synonyms:
grade, gradation
Meaning: a degree of ablaut
Synonyms:
gradation, step
Meaning: relative position in a graded series; "always a step behind"; "subtle gradations in color"; "keep in step with the fashions"
Usage examples
By all the others it was mentioned with regret; and his merits honoured with due gradation of feeling--from the sincerity of Edmund's too partial regard, to the unconcern of his mother speaking entirely by rote.
For if this should be denied, it is possible, by the continual gradation of shades, to run a colour insensibly into what is most remote from it; and if you will not allow any of the means to be different, you cannot without absurdity deny the extremes to be the same.