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Steigerung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • comparison noun An act of comparing two or more things, or the result of doing so.
  • increase verb To become larger in amount, number, or degree.
  • progression noun A gradual movement or development from one stage to the next.

Senses

Steigerung is used for these senses in English:

  • comparison (grammar) A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.
  • increase An amount by which a quantity is increased.
  • progression Development, increase, evolution.

increase — full definition

  1. verb To become larger in amount, number, or degree.
  2. verb To make something larger in amount, number, or degree.
  3. noun The amount by which something grows, or the act of growing larger.

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