Gradation may refer to: * Gradation (music), gradual change within one parameter or an overlapping of two blocks of a wavelength. * ''Gradation'' (album), 1988 pop album by Shizuka Kudo * Gradation (art), visual technique of gradually transitioning from one colour or texture to another *

Consonant gradation Consonant gradation is a type of consonant mutation (mostly lenition but also assimilation) found in some Uralic languages, more specifically in the Finnic, Samic and Samoyedic branches. It originally arose as an allophonic alternation ...

, mutation in which consonant sounds alternate between various "grades" *

Apophony In linguistics, apophony (also known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation, replacive morphology, stem mutation, or internal inflection) is an alternation of vowe ...

or vowel gradation, sound change within a word that indicates grammatical information *

Calibration In measurement technology and metrology, calibration is the comparison of measurement values delivered by a device under test with those of a calibration standard of known accuracy. Such a standard could be another measurement device of known ...

, comparison of measurement values of a device with a standard of known accuracy * Production of a

graded algebra In mathematics, in particular abstract algebra, a graded ring is a ring such that the underlying additive group is a direct sum of abelian groups R_i such that . The index set is usually the set of nonnegative integers or the set of integers, ...

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