gradation

There's a lot of fine gradation on this scale.

Large areas of subtle gradation cause the motion predictor to use big 16x16 blocks.

Maybe even more than one gradation - change of colour at score of 20, another at 50, maybe one more at 100.

Surely there is a gradation at some point along which a word like "shill" becomes applicable.

It could be because there is a disappearing middle, with little gradation between super rich and fucked.

Foreigners are taught to use the -vat form to form a conditional to get the correct consonant gradation.

I am not sure how many levels of gradation there are, but it seems that ones that have been down voted are lighter than those that haven't?

Hierarchy by definition is a formal gradation of ranks.

In everday use, the finer gradation of the Fahrenheit scale are irrelevant.

The standardized difficulty gradation made for the most bizzarre experience during the verbal part of the exam.

I kinda hesitate to link here, it seems like a pretty non-authoritative site, but it does point out that this law did a bad job of that standard gradation [1].

[3] As the author mentions, this is best observed in a gradient where the TV must present the gradations in sufficiently small steps to fool the eye into seeing a continuous gradation.

One thing that really bothers me about the whole war on child porn is that there seems to be no difference in gradation to people: people seem to think that a pedophile is the worst kind of human that can possibly exist no matter the circumstances.