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Progress indicates generally forward moving (L. Progressus, a going forward, advance) and may refer to:
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- Progress (philosophy), a main object of philosophy of history
- Evolutionary progress, the idea that there is a largest-scale trend in evolution of organisms and that the trend is toward improvement
- Scientific progress, the idea that science increases its problem solving ability through the application of some scientific method
- Social progress, process in which societies or individuals become changed
- Progress trap, the condition societies find themselves in when human ingenuity, in pursuing progress, inadvertently introduces problems that it does not have the resources to solve, preventing further progress or allowing social collapse.
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[edit] Geography
- Progress, Amur Oblast, a town in Russia
- Progress, Republic of Adygea, a khutor (village) in the Republic of Adygea, Russia
- Progress, name of several other rural localities in Russia
- Progress, California, United States
- Progress, Indiana, United States
- Progress, Oregon, United States
- Progress, Pennsylvania, United States
- Progress Village, Florida, United States
[edit] Transportation
- Progress D-27, propfan engine that the U.S.S.R company developed in the 1980s for commercial and military transport aircraft
- Progress (spacecraft), Russian expendable unmanned freighter spacecraft
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