#progress

• To ameliorate — To make better, higher in quality, more efficient, or more bearable; to improve a state of affairs, a situation, a product, or a patient's health condition. Professionally and agronomically, the term describes the process of selecting and optimizing animal breeds or plant varieties to increase productivity and resistance.
• Ankylopoiesis — A progressive pathological process of formation, development, or induction of ankylosis within a joint; the biological mechanism through which synovial tissue and articular cartilage are gradually replaced by fibrous or bony tissue, leading to complete immobilization and stiffening of the affected joint structures.
• Anti-progressivist — Opposed to progressivism; a person or ideological current that rejects the political and social ideas, reforms, or movements associated with modern progressivism. In a political and cultural sense, it describes a conservative or traditionalist stance that criticizes rapid social transformations, arguing that they may destabilize fundamental values, historical structures, or the moral order of a community.
• Anti-progressivist — The feminine form of antiprogresist; a woman, ideological orientation, or measure demonstrating opposition to progressive-type values, doctrines, or reforms. The term describes either a female person with traditionalist-conservative views, or an entity, doctrine, or cultural manifestation that criticizes or rejects social transformations proposed by modern progressive movements.
• Anti-traditionalist — Opposing traditionalism, conservatism, or cultural customs and norms inherited from the past; a person who rejects classical canons, social dogmas, and archaic structures, advocating for modernity, radical innovation, progressivism, and artistic or social emancipation.
• Arithmetic — Pertaining to arithmetic, referring to arithmetic, or based on the fundamental operations and rules of numbers. In mathematics, the term qualifies a progression where each term is obtained by adding a constant ratio to the preceding term, or a calculation, operator, or mean obtained by summing elements and dividing them by their total number.
• To harmonize — To bring into agreement, to blend diverse elements in a pleasant, proportionate, and balanced manner, creating a unitary and aesthetic whole. In music, to add appropriate chords or secondary voices to a given melody; in social, legal, or organizational contexts, to adapt, synchronize, or unify different laws, opinions, or systems.
• Harmonized — Being in agreement, concordance, optimal balance, or proportion; adapted or brought to a common denominator to eliminate internal contradictions. In music, it describes a melody provided with chordal accompaniment, while in legal and customs contexts, it refers to a unified system of rules.
• Aromorphosis — A primary direction or mechanism in the progressive evolution of living systems (introduced by Alexey Severtsov) consisting of the acquisition of major, complex morphophysiological changes that raise the general level of organismal organization.
• Ascent — The act of rising, climbing, or moving upward; the vertical upward movement of a body, vehicle, or air mass. In an astronomical sense, it represents the equatorial celestial coordinate (right ascension). Figuratively, it denotes a rapid and successful evolution, a social, professional, political, or spiritual advancement toward a higher level.
• Advance payment — A sum of money paid in advance out of a debt, a salary, within a sale-purchase agreement, or for executing a work, with the remainder of the payment to be settled later. Broadly, the term describes progress, headway, or a distance gained in time or space ahead of someone or something. In technology and mechanics, it refers to a kinematic or angular adjustment through which an action (such as ignition or feeding) occurs before the reference moment.
• To advance — To move forward, to make headway in space or time; to make steps toward an objective. In a professional or social context, to be promoted to a higher position, to rise in the hierarchy, or to gain a better status. As a transitive verb, it means to pay a sum of money in advance (to grant a down payment) or to propose, to put forward a hypothesis, idea, or opinion within a debate.
• Advancement — The act of advancing and its result; obtaining a superior hierarchical position at the workplace or within a social or military structure; promotion. In a physical or technical sense, it represents the forward movement of a body in space, the progress recorded by a work, or a machine's automatic material feeding mechanism.
• National progress — An expression denoting the accelerated progress, generalized development, and constructive surge of a nation in economic, cultural, social, or military fields; in Romanian history, the phrase carries a specific meaning, being the official title of the 'Avântul Țării' Medal, instituted in 1913 by King Carol I to reward participants in the Bulgarian Campaign. In a modern sense, it describes a period of boom, structural modernization, or national revival.
• National drive — Archaic spelling for 'avântul țării'; a phrase or slogan frequently used in political, economic, or patriotic speeches of the last century to designate rapid progress, accelerated structural development, industrial modernization, and the economic or cultural emancipation of a nation.