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Progress indicates generally forward moving (L. Progressus, a going forward, advance) and may refer to:

In science:

  • Progress (philosophy)
  • Evolutionary progress, the idea that there is a largest-scale trend in evolution of organisms and that the trend is toward improvement
  • Scientific progress, the idea that science increases its problem solving ability through the application of some scientific method
  • Social progress, process in which societies or individuals become better
  • Progress trap, process in which science and technology, in pursuing innovation, create more problems than they can solve

In business:

In computer science:

In geography:

In music:

In transportation:

  • Progress D-27, propfan engine that the U.S.S.R company developed in the 1980s for commercial and military transport aircraft
  • Progress spacecraft, expendable unmanned freighter spacecraft

In other fields:

See also: Progress Energy (disambiguation), Progress Party, Progression, and Progressive


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