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Progress indicates generally forward moving (L. Progressus, a going forward, advance) and may refer to:

Science

• 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 better
• 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.

Business

• Progress Energy Trust, Canadian oil and gas exploration and extraction company
• Progress Publishers, Moscow-based Soviet publisher
• Progress Software Corporation, the creator of Progress 4GL
• Progress State Research and Production Rocket Space Center, Samara-based Russian space company

Computer science

• Progress in artificial intelligence
• Progress 4GL, programming language developed by Progress Software Corporation (see OpenEdge Advanced Business Language)
• Progress bar, component in a graphical user interface used to convey the progress of a task

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, Indiana, United States
• Progress, Oregon, United States
• Progress, Pennsylvania, United States
• Progress Village, Florida, United States

Music

• Progress (album), solo album recorded by original King Crimson drummer Michael Giles
• Progress (EP), EP by Pedro the Lion
• Progress (Rx Bandits album), 2001 album by the Rx Bandits
• Pro-gress

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

Other fields

• "Progress" (DS9 episode), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode
• Progress (organisation), United Kingdom Labour Party political group
• Progress Theatre, a self-managed theatre in Berkshire, England
• Royal progress, formal tour of the state by its monarch

See also: Progress Energy (disambiguation), Progress Party, Progression, and Progressive

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