gradual transformation

collocation in English

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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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transformation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌtræns.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌtræns.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
a complete change in the appearance or character of something or someone, especially so that that thing or person ...
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At those critical juncturesgradualtransformationand reform are considerably more difficult.
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Additionally, it is increasingly evident that some natural oscillations develop into pathological oscillations (either by hypersynchronized natural oscillations or by evolving from agradualtransformationof natural oscillations).
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Forest recovery in these areas seems to be exceptionally slow, and repeated fires in the bracken-covered areas appears to lead to theirgradualtransformationinto graminoid-dominated savanna.
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There follows agradualtransformationof the concept of natural law and the reversal of the order of precedence between natural and human law.
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Aboitiz et al. assume that eachgradualtransformationhas an adaptive value, and that selective pressures drive each transformation.
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I believe that this factor has significantly contributed to thegradualtransformationof sporting events.
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Those who have been there in the past year or two and have compared it with the 1960s recognise agradualtransformationand relaxation in race relations.
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Growth implies thegradualtransformationof an economy from one stage to the chronologically next stage.
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Her fragility looks very natural and so does her character'sgradualtransformation.
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They believed in agradualtransformationof society toward socialism.
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Thegradualtransformationof the commercial district has attracted growing investment in surrounding residential areas, with both long-time residents and new homeowners participating in improving the quality of area homes.
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Histopathology of the lesion shows large areas of mature fibrous stroma undergoing hyaline cartilage metaplasia resulting in conspicuous lobules orgradualtransformationinto chondroid foci.
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A fade-out (filmmaking) is agradualtransformationof an image to black; whereas a fade-in (filmmaking) is the opposite.
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The same is true for permutation games and gradual transformations of interpolation between distinct object-gestures.
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Alternatively, two-rate taxation may be seen as a form that allowsgradualtransformationof the traditional real estate property tax into a pure land value tax.
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The contact with the settled population leads togradualtransformationof the population into more settled rural communities.
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They did not speak of the destruction of capitalism but sought to win the support of the masses and by agradualtransformationof the bureaucracies.
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Punctuated equilibrium is commonly contrasted against the theory of phyletic gradualism, which states that evolution generally occurs uniformly and by the steady andgradualtransformationof whole lineages (called anagenesis).
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Moreover, each step in the chain of gradual transformations is described as a new composite substance rather than as an aggregate of particles.
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