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Progress

• The idea of a process in which societies or individuals become better or more modern (technologically and/or socially). To be able to decide if something is progressive or not, if something is better or more modern than something else, one has to have a clear concept of what it means for something to be good or to be modern, and in the case of modernity, whether it is desirable or undesirable.
• In economics specifically, the means of measuring progress towards desirable ends (e.g. better state services or more wealth or more access to means of creating it; i.e. opportunity as defined usually by some political ideology).
• Progress in philosophy, which is hard to measure,
• One of several political movements. In United States and other English-speaking countries, progressivism refers to a leftist ideology. In Denmark and Norway, Progress Party is a far-right party.
• The Progress spacecraft,
• Progress Software Corporation, the creator of Progress 4GL.
• In monarchies a Royal Progress is a formal tour of the state by its monarch.

• In music, a chord progression.

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