Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Marked by a gradual progression as if step by step: "Quantum mechanics is a natural system of stepwise interactions that governs very small things” ( Malcom W. Browne).
- adj. Music Moving from one tone to an adjacent one.
Wiktionary
- adj. One (small) step or stage at a time; gradual; piecemeal
- adv. One step or stage at a time; step by step
WordNet 3.0
- adv. proceeding in steps
- adj. one thing at a time
Etymologies
- From step + -wise. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
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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.”
“To reach that stage, the informal English is replaced by progressively more detailed sequences of statements, in the process known as stepwise refinement.”
“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.”
“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).”
“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.”
“stepwise" approach was recommended, rather than a comprehensive tax reform introduced in one package.”
“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.”
“The arching sixth leap and stepwise fallback leading to the Tristan chord comes directly from Berlioz's opening phrase of yearning in the Romeo Alone sequence of his symphony.”
“This slow, stepwise approach to building a blockbuster medicine marks a departure from the industry's past, when companies developed drugs for common illnesses like hypertension and then used heavy marketing to rack up sales.”
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terms found in documentation for implantable medical devices and IVD equip
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Words that end in -wise.
coastwise, clockwise, counterclockwise, otherwise, likewise, crabwise, leastwise, streetwise, penny-wise, lengthwise, contrariwise, thwartwise and 59 more...
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