Definition of "degressive" [degressive]

• Tending to decrease (adjective)
• Decreasing in steps (adjective)

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• "By abandoning the notion of degressive bibliography and recording all subsequent versions, bibliography, simply by its own comprehensive logic, its indiscriminate inclusiveness, testifies to the fact that new readers of course make new texts, and ..."
• "Should we follow a traditional pattern with degressive density starting from the center of the metropolis or rather use cluster of high density spreaded around or other scheme?"
• "The principle applied is one of degressive proportional representation."