Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by a gradual progression as if step by step.
- adjective Music Moving from one tone to an adjacent one.
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- adjective One (small)
step orstage at a time;gradual ;piecemeal - adverb One step or stage at a time;
step by step
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb proceeding in steps
- adjective one thing at a time
Etymologies
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Examples
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This connection leads to the hypothesis that a long-term stepwise displacement of the y-direction will lead to a inflow of more Atlantic water to the Arctic Ocean and long term reduction in the extend of the Arctic ice cover.
Risk Management Solutions Ltd and the 37 Professors « Climate Audit 2007
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When Mosher and Pratt broke out the figures by age, the percentage of those expected to suffer from impaired fecundity increased in stepwise fashion.
Delayed Childbearing 1995
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When Mosher and Pratt broke out the figures by age, the percentage of those expected to suffer from impaired fecundity increased in stepwise fashion.
Delayed Childbearing 1995
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To reach that stage, the informal English is replaced by progressively more detailed sequences of statements, in the process known as stepwise refinement.
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To reach that stage, the informal English is replaced by progressively more detailed sequences of statements, in the process known as stepwise refinement.
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Being cooled and re-warmed is a lot more attractive than uploading, unless it was done incrementally, as a kind of stepwise replacement of wetware with h/w, maintaining awareness throughout.
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Klitzing discovered in a similar experiment that the Hall resistance does not vary in linear fashion, but "stepwise" with the strength of the magnetic field (see figure 2).
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He also praises the authors on their "stepwise" approach to collection of stroke data: "The present study from rural and urban Tanzania both sets new standards for stroke incidence studies in Africa and suggests that improved prevention is urgently needed to reduce the already high stroke incidence rates in these populations."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"stepwise" approach was recommended, rather than a comprehensive tax reform introduced in one package.
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That would be tantamount to Darwin saying "If I can't explain in stepwise detail how a given organ came to be, my theory is sunk."
A New Book 2010
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