gradual transition
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgradualandtransition
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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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transition
noun[C or U]
uk/trænˈzɪʃ.ən/us/trænˈzɪʃ.ən/
a change from one form or type to another, or the process by which ...
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(Definition ofgradualandtransitionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Again, various labor market rigidities may necessitate agradualtransitionof employment levels over time.
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Sleep onset is a condition in which agradualtransitionfrom waking to sleep takes place.
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Thisgradualtransitionis marked by an increase in the proportion of overt subjects over time.
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Agradualtransitionin accounting processes, however, was observed during the nineteenth century.
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They had a 'gradualtransition' toward retirement and bought a music shop to run together.
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We envisage agradualtransitionfrom a complex pre-life system, which we call the transition zone.
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Yet these politicians had already had time to build up personal reputations, too, during the relatively moregradualtransition.
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However, they share in common with insiders in decompressive transitions the time afforded by the moregradualtransitionto have cultivated personal, localized reputations as well.
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This too had been agradualtransition.
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They have less modal olivine, typically about 5 %, and there is agradualtransitionover about 100 m to the olivine-free oxide gabbros that contain c. 3-7 % cumulus oxide.
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Gradualtransitionis a transition that occurs as a result of a small accumulation of changes over a period of time.
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Preliminary results suggest the existence of agradualtransitionbetween predominantly ocean floor-derived sequences in the central part, to continent-derived submarine fan successions in the eastern part of the island.
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His opinions were informed by a political milieu that supported agradualtransitionfor colonies into independent states.
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The executive function view allows for agradualtransitionin theory of mind, while specifying the underlying cognitive processes that push that development forward.
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Over the course of this music extract there is a general andgradualtransitionfrom a sense of time passing slowly to time passing frenetically.
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In most cases agradualtransitionfrom direct regulation towards a mixed system can be observed, where standards, permits and charges (on emissions and natural resource use) are often combined.
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This finding is difficult to reconcile with agradualtransitionfrom a "control" to a "planning" representation when vision of the target object is removed.
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