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Progressive


Progressive is an adjectival form of progress and may refer to:

Politics


- Progressivism, a political movement/ideology with origins in early 20th century America
- Progressive Era, period of reform in the United States lasting from the 1890s through the 1920s
- Progressive Party, name of several different active and inactive political parties across the world
- Progressive tax, tax imposed so that the tax rate increases as the amount to which the rate is applied increases
- ''The Progressive'', left-wing monthly magazine

Business


- Progressive Corporation, auto insurance company in the United States
- Progressive Enterprises, New Zealand retail cooperative

Music


- Progressive music, approach to musical composition that has been applied to several different music genres
    - Progressive rock, subgenre of rock music arising in the late 1960s
    - Progressive metal, genre of heavy metal music sharing traits with progressive rock
- Progressive country, subgenre of country music started in the late 60s which preceded and led to Outlaw country
- Progressive electronic music, collection of electronic dance music genres drawing upon the use of progressive performing techniques
- Progressive psytrance, style of trance music developed in the early 2000s
- Progressive rock (radio format), radio station programming format that prospered in the late 1960s and 1970s
- Progressive (album), a demo released by the German symphonic metal band Haggard in 1994

Religion


- Progressive creationism, form of Old Earth creationism that accepts that new species have appeared successively over Earth's long history
- Progressive Judaism, umbrella term for all strands of Judaism which do not view halakha as having normative status
- Progressive revelation, core teaching of the Bahá'í Faith that flows from central teachings of the religion
- Progressive Christianity, a movement within contemporary Protestantism characterized by willingness to question tradition, acceptance of human diversity, and strong emphasis on social justice
- Liberal movements within Islam|Progressive Islam, a modern liberal interpretation of Islam

Sports


- Progressive Field (originally Jacobs Field), home of the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball

Technology


- Progressive disclosure, interaction design technique often used in human computer interaction
- Progressive scan, form of video transmission which is frame-based instead of field-based

Other fields


- Progressive illness, an illness that gradually progresses, generally to the worse.
- Continuous and progressive aspects|Progressive aspect, grammatical aspect that expresses incomplete action in progress at a specific time
- Progressive chess, chess variant in which players play progressively longer series of moves
- Progressive education, which emphasizes a "hands-on" approach to learning.
- Progressive function, function in mathematics
- Progressive jackpot, jackpot for a gaming machine where the value of the jackpot increases a small amount for every game played
- Progressive lenses, corrective lenses used in eyeglasses to correct presbyopia and other disorders of accommodation
- Progressive shifting, technique for changing gears commonly practiced by drivers of semi-trailer trucks
- Progressive stamping, metalworking method that can encompass punching, coining, and bending metal raw material

See also


- Progress
- Progression
- Progressive Alliance
- Progressive Party
- Progressive Unionist
- Progressivism

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