gradation

• This segment also provides system up-gradation, training, and support services; consumables; replacement parts; and accessory items, including sample handling devices, temperature and pressure control devices, x-ray optics, and software packages.
• The gradation is a nice feature, allowing the user to work their way up to the largest bead-or, in the case of more timid asses, progress to whatever level you may be comfortable with, and just leave it at that. —  Fleshbot
• Rahm Emanuel said the tests will reveal "gradation," with some being "very, very healthy" and others needing assistance.
• All these oppositions are liable to infinite qualification and gradation, as between species of animals; and you must not be troubled, therefore, if sometimes momentary contradictions seem to arise in examining special points. —  Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871
• Let us look to the great principle of gradation, and see whether Nature does not reveal to us her method of work. —  On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)

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