different between effusion vs progression

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French effusion, from Latin eff?si? (“outpouring”). Displaced native Old English ?gotennes.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u???n

Noun

effusion (countable and uncountable, plural effusions)

1. A liquid outpouring.
2. (chemistry) Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.
3. (figuratively, by extension) An outpouring of speech or emotion.
   • 1930; George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby; Animal Crackers, Paramount Pictures

     Captain Spaulding: My friends, I am highly gratified by this magnificent display of effusion […]

4. (medicine) The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French effusion, borrowed from Latin effusio, effusionem.

Noun

effusion f (plural effusions)

1. effusion

Further reading

• “effusion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Old French progression.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p????????n/

Noun

progression (countable and uncountable, plural progressions)

1. The act of moving from one thing to another.
2. The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
   • 2003,T.H. Jafar, et al.. Annals of Internal Medicine 139: 244-252.

     The lowest risk for kidney disease progression seemed to be at levels of current systolic blood pressure of 110 to 129 mm Hg.

3. (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
4. Development, increase, evolution.
5. (music) chord progression
6. (exercise) The making an exercise more exerting by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.

Antonyms

• regress
• retrogression

Synonyms

• (mathematics): sequence

Derived terms

Related terms

• progress

Translations

Finnish

Noun

progression

1. Genitive singular form of progressio.

French

Etymology

From Latin progressionem (accusative of progressio).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.???.sj??/

Noun

progression f (plural progressions)

1. progression

Further reading

• “progression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).