gradually; slowly; little by little; incrementally
gradually; by degrees; the sight of a tall soaring rock; crying; weeping
gradual decrease; decline
gradual progress; steady advance
recurrence relation; recurrence formula
gradualism; slow-and-steady policy
climax (rhetoric); gradation
Westward movement (westward expansion of United States territory)
jian (hexagram 53 of the I Ching: development)
bathyal zone; midnight zone; bathypelagic