gradual process

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meanings of gradualand process

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gradual
adjective
uk /ˈɡrædʒ.u.əl/ us /ˈɡrædʒ.u.əl/
happening or changing slowly over a long period of time ...
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process
noun[C]
uk /ˈprəʊ.ses/ us /ˈprɑː.ses/
a series of actions that you take in order to achieve ...
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Examples of gradual process

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After suffering a significant loss of support in the 1974 elections, the military leadership began a gradualprocess of political liberalisation.
It would be odd, indeed, if, through this gradualprocess, suddenly non-physical mental entities came into being.
Several other scholars, who claim a very gradualprocess, put the ending date of the vocalisation of \\l\\ in the middle of the 12th century.
This observation supports the notion that the development of phonemic categories is a gradualprocess that diffuses through the child's lexicon.
Interestingly, the gradualprocess towards stable farmsteads begins at a time when the communal urnfields are no longer in use.
Democratising the public sphere turned out to be a gradualprocess from within, encompassing a multitude of conflicts and setbacks.
In my view, the linguistic correlate of functional turnover, selective replication, does not need to be a gradualprocess.
What may be needed is a gradualprocess of change, driven by a participatory process involving all principals.
Presbyacusis is a gradualprocess and individuals are often unaware that their hearing is deteriorating.
The change from body tegument to nephridiopore tegument was clearly not an abrupt, but rather a gradualprocess (fig. 5).
At what point does the materialized spirit assume independent existence, considering that the extrusion of ectoplasm is a gradualprocess?
From this point of view, nuclear fragmentation followed by cellular fragmentation is a gradual process resulting in disintegration of preimplantation embryos.
But they certainly can qualify as distributive considerations that lie behind the gradualprocess of 'socializing medicine' which he describes.
The ideational consensus identified was the result of a gradualprocess that went hand in hand with the forging of a new governing coalition.
This division indicates a perception of ' growing up ' as a gradualprocess, with every year entailing a different halakhic status.
Once adopted, policies go through a gradualprocess of institutionalization.
Elderly informants say it was a gradualprocess.
The development of the corner layer is a gradualprocess, so that there is no particular time in which the corner layer begins to exist.
This was a gradualprocess as the different shops became available during the 1860s and early 1870s.
Thus, trade liberalization has been a gradualprocess rather than an immediate, one-time event.
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