degressive
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of degressive
First recorded in 1905–10; degress(ion) + -ive
Example Sentences
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Marc was right in more ways than one: the Team's "dual degressive" sidecut takes the hook out of turning/spinning.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the case of retrogressive and degressive mutability the internal cause is at once apparent, for it is this which causes the disappearance or reappearance of some character.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
Contrasted with this method of growing differentiation, are the retrogressive modifications, which simply retrace a step, and the degressive changes in which a backward step is retraced and old characters revived.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
Weight charges levied on newspapers should at least be on a degressive scale.
From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by A. D. Smith
I have tried to show that the best and strictest conception of varieties limits them to those forms that have probably originated by retrograde or degressive steps.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
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